Head of Nights

Head Of Nights
Accountable to the Care Home Manager

SALARY: From £11.30 per hours dependant on experience

BENEFITS:

• Career progression
• Competitive rates of pay
• Excellent training, ongoing professional development and defined career opportunities once working with us
• 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
• Refer a friend scheme
• Excellent recognition schemes such as ‘Care Awards’
• Access to Blue Light Card
• Salary Advance Scheme- providing you with the opportunity to receive your earned pay immediately to increase your choice and financial wellbeing

Would you like to work for an established home with a good rating from CQC? that treats its staff and residents like family? With a fully supportive Head Office function? Like the sound of flexible working? Great bonus incentive schemes in addition to the salary? Please drop us a line.

We are looking to recruit a passionate, committed and motivated Head of Nights for our nursing and residential care home for the elderly. We are looking to recruit a candidate that shares our vision of enhancing the lives of our residents and recognise that to achieve an outstanding service, our staff must be supported, nurtured and developed to reach their potential.

Accountabilities:

• Care Planning- Ensuring night sections of resident's plans of care is up to date, current and detailed.
• Supervisions on care team 6 times per year.
• Leading staff meetings every three months, making an agenda, leading the meeting and producing minutes of the meetings.
• Audits of medication that is given over night including CD meds at the end of every shift.
• Produce the night rota every fortnight along with the unit allocation sheet.
• Induct new care and Senior staff and complete Induction booklets.
• Complete 6, 12 and 24 week assessments on staff that are still in their probationary period.
• Return to work meetings on staff after any absence.
• Reporting of any maintenance or housekeeping issues that you identify over night.
• Ensure by checking that all routine procedures are being followed by staff to a high standard including the moving and handling of residents, documentation, call bell waiting times and general kindness and care of the staff.
• Be the link person between the day and night team taking ideas, concerns and recommendations forward to your team and informing Deputy Managers of anything from your team.
• Liaise with other managers in regards to ideas and implementing new procedures or improvements on night shifts.
• Attending Management meetings once a month

Qualifications and experience required:

• Must have senior carer experience at a minimum

Please note that this list is not exhaustive and other requirements may be necessary to meet the needs of the business.

Job Type

• Full-time
• Permanent
• Weekend availability/ Monday-Friday
• 36+ hours per week
• You must be available to work 1 day shift per week

For an informal discussion and an application pack please contact the Care Home Manager on 01933 445200.

Note: No terminology in this advert is intended to be deemed discriminatory. We are happy to accept applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.

This position is subject to proven eligibility to work in the UK and a satisfactory enhanced DBS in the event of a successful application.

Staff may be required to wear PPE including masks, undergo regular LFT and PCR testing if required according to government guidelines at the time.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £11.30 per hour

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Wellingborough NN8 1NB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• care of the elderly and/or mentally ill: 1 year (required)

Work Location: One location