Senior Carer

About

We are a successful business providing excellent care to our clients in their own homes, in Grantham and Newark and villages in between. We are expanding our responsibilities and have a vacancy for an excellent care professional who meets the following requirements and who is confident they could contribute fully to our future success.

• Delivering excellent care to our clients in their homes
• Working closely with the Care Manager to monitor and improve the services the company provide
• Shadowing and introducing staff in Client calls
• Working with Scheduling and Recruitment to help ensure effective utilization of staff plus to recruitment of the right candidates
• You will share on-call responsibilities where you will liaise and advise fellow team members plus be a contact for our clients, their relatives and relevant authorities

Full time position only - 30 to 40 hours per week

Must be flexible to cover early, later and alternate weekend shifts

Shifts vary between 7:30am to 9:30pm

Calls will be a minimum of 1 hour

You will share on-call responsibilities where you will liaise and advise fellow team members plus be a contact for our clients, their relatives and relevant authorities.

Around 25 hours in community

Around 10 hours in office - NG31 7FZ

0 hours contract at present

£14.05 per hour

Travel time - £12.21

Mileage - 30p per mile

• Minimum of NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care and working towards Level 3
• Full UK licence with access to own car
• 2 years experience in home care and 1 year supervisory experience (preferred)
• Female only due to client preference
• Must live up to 10 miles of Grantham
• Must have local knowledge of Grantham area and surrounding villages - this so they have common interests and can relate with our clients. Ideally candidate will have lived locally for a period of years

• Experience of delivering care to clients in their own homes
• Experience using digital care plan and monitoring systems
• Excellent communication & computer skills
• Positive role model
• Great team building skills
• Be flexible, adaptable and able to work effectively in a varirty of settings

In return you will receive a competitive rate of pay and benefits depending on experience and qualifications. We also encourage and will help fund further career development and training. Opportunities for career progression.