Night Care Assistant (Adults)

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.

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 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.

To learn more about this role, please review our Candidate Pack available on our website. Please click on the Apply button for details.