Night Care Assistant

Full Job Description

Night Care Assistant 

Salary: Band:  4, £23,130 - £24,362 p.a. (£17,191 - £18,106 for 27.5 hours) plus 33% shift enhancement added for nights

Hours: Part time -  An average of 27.5 hours per week - hours will be worked over 2-week rota which may include weekends and bank holidays.         

Portsmouth City Council

At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.

With a little over 207,000 residents and 8,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million-pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

The Service 

Harry Sotnick House is a busy 46 bed nursing unit located on the ground floor of the building.

We are fully committed as a team and are involved in all aspects of our resident's lives.  It can be hard work and mentally and physically strenuous but rewarding for the right person with the right skills and values. We provide person centred care to our residents and encourage them to make choices as part of helping them maintain their independence as much as possible. We encourage activity-based care. 

As a service we take pride in our work by valuing others, focusing on what's important so that we make a real and positive difference. 

Your New Role

Using a person-centred approach, you will look after the physical, emotional, cultural and social needs of service users. This will include personal care, assisting clients at mealtimes and all aspects of daily living.  You will be providing person centred care in the form of social activities which promotes the resident's mental health and wellbeing and improves their quality of life.

You will be a key worker to specific residents taking responsibility to ensure information about their health and wellbeing is recorded on the daily record sheets and communicated to the assistant managers as per our legal requirement under the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to meet our fundamental standards.    You will look after the needs of a diverse group of service users with a wide range of care needs, including challenging behaviour.

It will be your responsibility to ensure monitoring and hourly checks with detailed recording on daily record sheets are carried out on residents and their care needs are met. 

This role will include some person moving and handling duties and there will be the need for light food preparation. 

Please view the full details on the role here .

What you'll need to succeed

Please view the full details of the role here as well as details of what you need to demonstrate in order to fulfil the role.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

What you'll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme 
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Staff rewards: 

Application process:

Please read the full job profile ( click here ) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.

Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. This is important or you are likely not to be shortlisted.  Please do not just send a CV.

Please ensure you provide your full education history from secondary school, include name/address of establishment, details of relevant qualifications & awarding body. 

Please explain any gaps - this is essential for all safeguarding roles.

You may wish to attach an additional letter or document to supplement you application.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

Closing time/date :  1 March 2024 @ 23.59 pm.

A commitment to our values

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals.  Learn more about our values and behaviours .

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.  

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