Night Care Assistant
Job Reference: HCC619043
Salary Range: £24,405 - £25,430 pro-rata, per annum
Work Location: West Street, Havant
Hours per annum: Minimum of 30 hours per annum
Contract Type: Permanent (Annualised hours)
Closing Date: 12 November 2024
The Role:
Here at West Street we provide short term crisis respite services for adults with learning disabilities. As a Waking Night Care Assistant you’ll play a key role providing personalised physical and emotional care to the people who stay with us, including helping with medication and providing personal care. You’ll focus on ensuring a high standard of hygiene and safety, so people are comfortable and secure at night during their stay with us. Each of the people who stay with us is unique with their own individual physical, mental, social and emotional needs. You’ll enjoy this fast-paced role and will be flexible and adaptable to meet individual needs. The role is diverse, and you will use your person-centred approach to focus on the service users strengths, promoting their independence and tailoring your support to the individual.
You may already have experience of enabling or providing care, but it’s not essential. For this vital Night Care Assistant role your life experience is just as important as work experience. You’ll need strong observational skills to closely monitor mental and physical health, responding quickly and appropriately to verbal and non-verbal signs. The wellbeing and safety of the people who stay with is will be at the forefront of all your decisions and supported by your excellent communication skills. You’ll be comfortable working independently, assessing and evaluating situations during the night and deciding how to respond. Most importantly, you’ll demonstrate our core values, showing patience, empathy and compassion. Basic IT skills and accurate information recording skills are also essential.
In return we can offer you a comprehensive induction programme, so that you’ll have all the training you need to do a fantastic job as a Night Care Assistant. You’ll also get great satisfaction from ensuring people are safe and comfortable at night whilst they stay with us.
For this role you’ll be required to work nights, weekends and bank holidays for which enhancements will be paid in line with the HCC salary policy.
Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK before applying.
Additional Information:
Find out more about Working with us in Adults’ Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process.
Values Based Recruitment:
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.
Vetting Requirements:
This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
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