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Nursing home jobs in United Kingdom

  • Waking night support / carer for disabled teen
    Waking night support / carer for disabled teen
    8 days ago
    £16 hourly
    Part-time
    London

    Job Summary We are looking for a Waking Night Support worker / Carer to join a lovely team around a 19 year old teenager who has epilepsy, non verbal autism, movement disorder and additional health needs. He lives at home with his family and friendly dog. Weekly hours We are looking for someone to take on 2 regular waking nights (13hr each night shift) ideally Thursday and Friday nights (but please let us know which nights work for you and we can then consider). These are strictly waking nights. More weekly hours are possible sometimes but not less hours The young man needs someone to spot seizures or other health emergencies and if needed call the parents who are in the same house. The monitoring is with seizure video monitor and heart rate monitor and regular in person checks. These nights can be quite active - as if he has a seizure he might have to be accompanied via ambulance to A&E. Good command of the English language is essential. All training is during the day first through shadowing. About you: This position will suit someone who ideally has already worked with autistic and disabled adults and has already experience. But we would also be able to train you in personal care, catheterisation, medication administration, peristeen and positive behaviour support and other essential skills. His environment will need to be kept clean and tidy (it is not a cleaner position but to ensure that his environment stays tidy, safe and fit for purpose). You will help with his laundry too. We would prefer someone to work on a self-employed basis with a UTR number (not cash in hand). It is exactly 26 hours minimum per week. We hope to find someone who has specific interest in special needs. It is not a summer job but we hope to find someone to commit for a minimum of 12months. That's why we would prefer someone who has studied or will study a related subject eg Psychology or nursing or similar. One would need to be strong and fit to support and keep safe someone with a movement disorder. The suitable applicant would be flexible and be able to take on extra shifts from time to time. You would often work together with other team members at the beginning or end of your shift (eg for bath time). Day shifts might available too on occasion if you are interested. You should be responsible, cheerful, honest and very reliable and physically strong and healthy. You will be trained by members of the experienced team in all of his health needs but also the principles of ABA - a behaviour therapy. You will need to attend some of the team meetings too. You should: • Commit for minimum a year. • Ideally be self-employed. Please reply with a few sentences explaining why you are interested (and please read full advertisement), send us your CV (post it on this forum and please let us know initially already why you are suitable and interested. Please no AI. Lateron we will need relevant references and a copy of your enhanced DBS. Salary Offered: £16 per hour or £208 per 13 hour night shift. Starting Date: for initial daytime training Asap. We look forward to hearing from you.

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  • CQC Registered Manager - Residential Care Home
    CQC Registered Manager - Residential Care Home
    2 months ago
    £35000–£40000 yearly
    Full-time
    Coulsdon

    CQC Registered Manager - Mental Health Residential Home Our 13-bed residential care home in Coulsdon is seeking a new registered manager! The ideal candidate for this position will succeed in this role if they have both knowledge and experience in the social care sector, specifically mental health. The registered manager will need to register with the CQC and passing the probation stage of the role will be dependent on the CQC approving their registration. Our mental health residential home is seeking a new manager to support up to 13 service users who live with mental illness, physical disabilities, dementia, and/or complex behaviours. Responsibilities Ensuring the safety and well-being of the service users within the home · All service users will be safe, provided with person-centred care, and indicating that they are happy via feedback mechanisms · Holding responsibility for all areas of the care provided Following CQC regulations and ensuring the home is compliant · Maintaining CQC compliance, regularly auditing and improving, and preparing for CQC inspection. Maintaining ‘Good’ CQC report for the home ·* Managing a team of staff * · Organising the staff rota, conducting supervisions for the staff, ensuring that staff follow policies and procedures, pushing the professional development of the staff members, hosting regular staff meetings, dealing with disciplinary actions ·* Liaising with professionals and stakeholders* · Ensuring MDT members, stakeholders, family members and other outside bodies are kept updated · Collecting feedback from stakeholders and making improvements as needed · Maintaining relationships with stakeholders and making positive links for the organisation ·* Upholding and improving the organisation’s reputation * · Maintaining CQC report of ‘Good’ and working towards improving to ‘Outstanding’ · Representing the organisation when liaising with outside bodies · Seeking continual improvement and pushing new initiatives ·* Ensuring the home is at capacity* · Assessing potential service users, submitting proposals, liaising with professionals, ensuring all beds are filled in a timely manner ·* Holding responsibility for administration tasks* · Auditing, writing care plans and risk assessments, completing provider information requests, following policies and procedures and completing all administration tasks required · Delegating tasks as required and ensuring completion ·* Managing the finances of the home* · Ensuring financial viability of the home including managing purchasing, keeping track of resident funds, recording financial transactions and auditing the home’s finances Qualifications Essential • Willing to register with CQC, • Mandatory social care trainings including medication administration, • Level 5 NVQ in Health and Social Care, • Nursing degree, • PBS qualifications, • Compassion, • Resilience, • Organisation, • Good leader, • Ability to take initiative, • Company events, • On-site parking Experience: • Care home: 3 years (required) Language: • English (required) Licence/Certification: • Enhanced DBS (preferred) Work Location: In person

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  • Care / Support Worker
    Care / Support Worker
    1 month ago
    £16 hourly
    Full-time
    London

    We are looking for a Waking night and day shift support worker / carer to join the lovely team around our 19 year old son who has epilepsy and profound autism, is non verbal and has additional health needs. He lives at home with his family and dog. We will need someone to take on both daytime hours as well as cover 1-2 waking nights per week. We need to cover the following waking nights: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the moment. These night supports are strictly waking nights. You would often work together with other team members to engage him in every day activities and to take him out into the community. But you would also need to take on sole charge after training. He can walk short distances but otherwise uses a wheel chair. He likes to go to the park, shopping, cafe and sometimes some planned activities all with a lot of support. His communication is mainly through pictures of reference and is taught with ABA principles. His ABA consultant is training the You would be expected to attend those team meetings. He sometimes is also tired and unwell after a seizure or other illness and will then just need care and nurturing and patience. He also sometimes has hospital stays which requires patience. You would be assisting him with everyday skills and activities as well as feeding, bathing and toileting. Ideally you have experience with catheterisation and peresteen as well as PEG feeding too. But we can also train you. On normal days he needs support workers to be patient, fun and also strong as he is a lanky teenager who does need a lot of physical support. You would need to be able to appreciate a person who has profound autism and treat him with dignity. When working a waking overnight you will need to make sure that he is safe and alert parents in case of a seizure. This position also involves keeping his environment generally tidy and clean and help with his laundry. Please only people who are dog friendly apply. Please only non smokers and non vapers apply. You should be responsible, cheerful, honest and very reliable, physically strong and healthy as he needs a lot of support. You will be trained by members of the team and the education consultant and be taught the principles of ABA - a behaviour therapy. You would be someone who has interest in special needs, psychology and perhaps nursing. You would perhaps have studied a related field or are planning to study a related field. You would need to be flexible and sometime cover for other people in the team if they are away on holidays or ill. Ideally you would work with a UTR number on a self-employed basis or if needed because of a visa through an agency with a PAYE (we can help with this). You should: • Apply with cover letter, CV, DBS and relevant references, • Commit for minimum a year., • Invoice at the end of every month, • Able to work legally in the UK, • Be based in London We are based in Islington. Please reply explaining why you are interested (and please read full advertisement before), then also upload your CV and lateron we need relevant references and a copy of your DBS. Weekly hours: minimum 26 hours (often more) or if full-time minimum 37.5 hours. please indicate in your application if you are after full or part time (can work with UTR or only PAYE) interested in both day and night shifts or only night shifts (we can not hire anyone who is not interested in the night shift). This is not a second job possibility (we would like to find someone who takes on this position as their only job even if it can only be part time because of studies. Starting Date: for training Asap. Training first only days time. All training done through shadowing. We look forward to hearing from you.

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