Job Detail

Strathmore Lodge is seeking a Senior Support Worker in St Albans.

We are a private residential care home for the elderly with a maximum capacity of 19 residents. Our staff make our home welcoming and friendly, and we have an extremely low staff turnover, creating a supportive environment for both residents and staff. We encourage staff growth and career progression.

We provide exceptional, homely, and relaxed residential and dementia care in St Albans. Residents are at the heart of everything we do, and we adapt to their individual needs. Our ethos is to keep things simple, focusing on people. We aim to provide personalized care in a supportive, encouraging, and loving environment, promoting independence and dignity. You can really help make a difference in people’s lives.

We try to reward all of our staff for their exceptional efforts, and we achieve this with a variety of practical benefits, including:

Care Professional Academy Rewards include: 

Our Commitment to You:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Refer a Friend Bonus Scheme
• Free uniforms
• Flexible working within a supportive and friendly environment
• Unlimted training and opportunities to learn additional skills that may not be directly link to your current role.
• Support & career development
• Paid Holiday
• Enhanced Bank Holiday pay
• Enhanced Additional Hours Pay (1.5x hour rate)
• Auto-Enrolment Pension

Additional benefits:

• £500 loyalty Bonus for joining us.
• £400 introduction payment for the new starter and referrer
• 1.5x hourly rate enhancement for overtime hours
• Blue Light Card to access 15,000+ discounts from large national retailers
• Free food and drinks
• Free car parking on site.

Duties and responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Assist the Manager in running the home efficiently and caringly in their absence.

• Ensure a handover is carried out, accounting for all residents at the start and end of each shift.

• Help with daily medication administration.
• Ensure staff contribute to a homely, friendly, and supportive atmosphere, leading by example.
• Support the training and development of all staff.
• Support residents with personal care, promoting independence, dignity, and respect.

What We're seeking:

• Ideally a minimum of NVQ 2 working towards NVQ Level 3 or above (Although this can be arranged).
• Ability to support, motivate and lead staff and to be a team player.
• Be practical and help to provide solutions to and problems or issues and to help create improved ways of working.
• Communicate and interact effectively with both residents and staff.
• You must like dogs, terrible singing, having fun with our residents and most of all a desire and passion to help support and improve people lives.

If  you fancy being part of a thriving care home, without the stress of understaffing and with a permanent manager who values, respects and listens to all then apply today.