Night Care Assistant (Adults) HCC618537

Job Details:

Salary range: £23,115 - £24,140 pro-rata, per annum (actual salary £15,618 - £16,311 per annum)
Work location: Homewood Care Home, Andover
Hours per week: 25
Contract type: Permanent 
Closing Date: 26 September 2024

The Role:

Here at Homewood we provide residential services for adults with learning disabilities. As a Night Care Assistant you’ll play a key role providing personalised physical and emotional care to the people who stay with us, including 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 diversity and use your person-centred approach to focus on their strengths, promoting their independence and tailoring your support to the individual.   

Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the role, team and our values.  The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about.  Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application. 

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.   We are committed to your continual personal development and offer an extensive Benefits Package. 

For this role you will be required to work a shift pattern and work nights, weekends and bank holidays for which enhancements will be paid. 

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. 

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Health Care Assistant, Care Worker, Residential Care Assistant, Residential Support Worker, Care Assistant, Waking Night, Night Support Worker, Support Worker, Home Care Worker, Home Care Assistant, Domiciliary Care Worker, Night Shift Care Assistant, Night Carer, Community Care Assistant, Agency Homecare Assistant, Assistant House Parent and Personal Care Giver. 

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.

Additional Information:

Find out more about Working with us in Adults’ Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process. 

Vetting Requirements:

This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:

For general enquiries, please contact care.careers@hants.gov.uk 

For an informal chat about the role, please contact David Gallimore, Deputy Unit Manager, on David.Gallimore@hants.gov.uk.