Senior Care Assistant
Macklin Care Homes are currently recruiting Senior Care Assistants to join their friendly, caring, and progressive Our Lady's Care Home.
This is a vital role within the Home, working as a team to lead the delivery of excellent care to much-loved residents.
About the role
Responsibilities:
- Lead and work collaboratively with the care team to deliver excellent quality, person-centered care to all residents
- Enrich the lives of residents through the organisation and delivery of activities
- Proactively encourage and develop team members
- Ensure all documentation is completed in line with Home procedures
- Assist in inducting new team members into their role and the Home
- Advocate and promote the company mission, vision, and values
- Supporting the nursing team to ensure compliance with policies and procedures
A satisfactory enhanced AccessNI check will be required for this post.
If successful please be aware that we do have a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders. As per the Access NI Code of Practice, Macklin Care Homes also has a policy on the secure handling, use, storage, and retention of disclosure information. Copies of these documents along with the Access NI Code of Practice are available upon request by contacting the HR Department.
It is Macklin Care Homes Policy that any existence of a criminal conviction will not necessarily lead to the withdrawal of a job offer, but the failure to fully and accurately disclose all criminal convictions will lead to the withdrawal of the offer.
What you will need
Required criteria
- Excellent leadership skills
- Minimum 1 year experience in caring role
- Excellent communicator at all levels
Desired criteria
- Experience of training and supporting staff
Professional skills you’ll need for this job opportunity
Delegation
Communication
Devising and Delivering Training
Macklin Care Homes
Macklin Care Homes, headed by the Macklin family and part of the Macklin Group, have been caring for people for over 30 years. We’ve taken all our experience over all those years to bring the very best of our knowledge and our expertise to you. We’re experts at what we do. We’re not just another Care Home, we’re a family first and foremost and we treat everyone we come into contact with as one of our very own. From staff to residents to relatives to suppliers to the postman – we’re all one big community! We have Six Locations - Park Manor/Belfast, Arlington/Belfast, Our Lady's/Belfast, Milesian Manor/Magherafelt, Ratheane/Coleraine, and Leabank in Ballycastle.
Want a job you'll love? Can you make a real difference to the lives of others? We are looking to recruit great people to work in care and in return, we will bring out the best in you. At Macklin Care Homes you will work as part of an award-winning team who are valued for their contribution, with opportunities for career development, as well as a friendly and rewarding working environment. If you are a compassionate person who cares with heart we would like to hear from you. We are proud of our values and unique positive culture that we live each and every day. This is reflective of our relationships with our residents, their relatives, our suppliers and the local community.
Our benefits
As a family-run organisation, we live and breathe our core values of treating people really well, trust, dedication and continuous development. Once you join us, you not only become a member of the team but a member of our family. Caring with heart is at the core of everything we do – with our residents and team members.