Healthcare Assistant & Senior Healthcare Assistant

Camelot Care is an award winning provider of specialist dementia nursing and residential services in the South west of England. We are currently looking to recruit HCA’s and Senior HCA’s for our 90 bed home in Wellington, Somerset where your responsibility will be to ensure the home continues to provide the highest level of quality care.

Healthcare Assistant / Senior Healthcare Assistant – Some of your responsibilities include:

• To maintain safe systems and practices in the Home at all times for residents, staff and visitors in accordance with the Home’s policies and procedures.
• To be alert to and report any potentially dangerous situations or accidents to the Senior Nursing Staff on duty or the Matron and record any accident occurring to residents, staff or visitors.
• To assist doctors, social workers and other health and social care workers as required in attending to resident’s care needs.
• To work individually or with other care, domestic and catering staff as instructed, in providing care and assistance to meet resident’s needs, including helping residents and their relatives and visitors to make or have snacks or drinks and clearing used crockery and cutlery and washing up afterwards.
• To report any changes noted in the behaviour, health care or social care needs of residents to the Senior Nursing Staff on duty.
• To assist as instructed with the preparation of care plans and records and the implementation of the action plans to meet agreed targets for each resident.

The Healthcare Assistant / Senior Healthcare Assistant ideal candidate will have experience in a relevant care setting.

Salary: £26,000 per year + Pension

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