Senior Care Worker

What is on offer?

  • Salary £24,000 – £26,000 per year depending upon experience
  • 33 days holiday per year.
  • Flexible working hours
  • Option to take 1 full day off every month by work extra on other days.
  • 37.5 hours per week.
  • Pension contributions.
  • Overtime work available as a care worker.
  • The opportunity to progress within Gardiner’s and to work with a talented, dedicated and friendly team.

Nature of the job role:

  • Provide high quality, safe care to clients in their own homes, recording and communicating any changes promptly.
  • To act as a role model and mentor to colleagues.
  • Work with clients to identify support needs and agree plans of care.
  • Supporting to manage client care
  • Monitoring quality of service and client satisfaction.
  • Maintaining excellent communication with clients and relatives.
  • Ensuring service is delivered according to the clients’ preferences within the constraints of the service we can provide.
  • Supporting and influencing the development of a positive work environment where great care is celebrated and suggestions are encouraged.
  • Being an ambassador for Gardiner’s, contributing fully and positively to the management of the service as a whole and our future direction.

 Main duties: 

  • Visiting new clients for introductory meetings, assessments and care planning.
  • Meeting existing clients to review care.
  • Supporting to managing care packages as they change.
  • Dealing with issues raised by Service Users and Care Workers.
  • Safeguarding service users and following up all concerns that are raised.
  • Ensuring all aspects of service user care and managing carers are properly documented.
  • Booking carer workers to cover duties using the electronic booking software.
  • Efficiently and effectively communicating to carer workers details of clients and their care.
  • Observing carers’ practice when providing care to clients.
  • Providing out of hours on call cover as part of a rota.

The successful applicant will likely be able to work some , if not all, weekdays before 9am – as well as occasional weekday evenings or weekends.

Applicants should preferably have:

  • experience working as a senior care worker in domiciliary care, or other care setting.
  • a full driving licence.
  • a care qualification, minimum NVQ level 2 or equivalent or a willingness to work towards obtaining such qualifications.

Can you demonstrate that you have a genuine care, compassion and respect for others?

Do you have excellent communication and organisational skills?

Are you able to cope with pressure and change?

If you would like to apply send an email explaining why you are keen to be considered for the role to hr@gardinershomecare.co.uk – closing date for applications 14th October 2024.