Job Vacancy: Senior Healthcare Assistant (Residential)
Location: Silverpoint Court Residential Care Home in Canvey Island, Essex SS8 7TN
Contracted hours: 44 hour contract (including every other weekend)
Hourly rate of pay: From £13.50
Work flexibility: In accordance with your availability and the service requirements

As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you will be part of an exceptionally supportive team, providing outstanding physical, emotional, and social assistance to the people living at Silverpoint Court Residential Care Home.

We are currently looking for a positive and motivated individual to join our growing team as a Senior Healthcare Assistant. We require someone who is deeply passionate about caring for the elderly, with a genuine drive to manage a care team responsible for those using our services, including residents, their families, and visitors.

Nellsar is committed to developing and training our staff to ensure high quality care is provided to our residents. The successful candidate will receive ongoing training and development with opportunities for progression within the Company, including apprenticeships for new and existing staff.

The perfect role for you
Being a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy, you will thrive on bringing a smile to our residents' faces whilst supporting their physical and mental wellbeing. Being a kind, compassionate person who respects people's personal choice, dignity and privacy, we would be honoured to welcome you to our team.

Key responsibilities

• Providing leadership to the care staff within the service.
• Providing care in accordance with current best practices, policy and procedures, agreed standards, legislative requirements and relevant regulations, under the direction of the manager.
• Carrying out and supervising the care services within the organisation in accordance with agreed standards.
• Maintaining skills at a current level, and undertaking such training and development as may, from time to time, be required to keep practices up to date.
• Supervising staff and ensuring that all staff contribute to the efficient running of the service.
• Supporting effective communication with residents' families, friends, advocates or representatives around all aspects of care and wellbeing.

Further information
For more information on the role and to see the job description and person specification, please visit the Nellsar recruitment website.

What we offer

• Competitive pay and paid training hours
• Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• Working in a supportive team
• The opportunity to help your team develop
• Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
• Nellsar work uniforms

Why choose us?
Nellsar has been a family-run company since 1988 and provides exceptional care for residents across our group of 13 Care Homes in Kent, Surrey, and Essex. We consistently strive to achieve the highest standards of professional and person-centred care, promoting the wellbeing and development of our team members.

It's our mission at Nellsar to ensure that people live life to the full.

• We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.
• You will be an important member of the Silverpoint Court family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people's quality of life.

Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.

Thank you for considering the possibility of joining the Nellsar family, we are looking forward to welcoming you!