London Borough of Hounslow

Senior Care Officer

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Location
Hounslow, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/8/2025
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About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion

We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

Our Benefits

About The Role

The senior care worker plays a crucial role in providing care and support to elderly. Their responsibilities encompass various aspects of their resident’s well-being ensuring their physical emotional and social needs are met here of some key aspects of the senior care workers role: medication administration supervision of the care staff, health monitoring, emotional support documentation and reporting to your line manager team collaboration including health professionals and relative and adherence to policies and regulations.

You’ll be working at Sandbanks Resource Centre which is located in Bedfont, Feltham. The home is a residence for 60 older people.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

  • Sandbanks has a large diverse staff team.
  • Each senior is allocation of a unit and a team of care workers and ancillary staff to manage.
  • The role includes duty officer shifts, back up duty officer shifts who are essentially responsible for the day to say shift management of the home.
  • The key purpose of the role is to ensure we provide a high standard of care to the residents in our care.

About You

  • Good communication using the English language. All documentation especially care plans, incident forms; medication records are clear, concise, factual and accurate. Completed in line with policies and procedures and in a timely manner.
  • This is a progressive and responsible role for an experienced, confident and passionate care professional.

Skilled in the use of technology and have range of computer skills, word excel and Microsoft.

  • Able to think clearly process information and priorities duties and direct a staff team.
  • Ensure that the care of the residents is to high standard.
  • The ability to remain calm in a demanding role.
  • NVQ level 3 or equivalent qualification in health and social care or be working towards it
  • Proven Experience of managing/supervising a staff team
  • Enhanced DBS check is required.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile , but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email:[email protected]

Telephone:02085835050

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing: 4th August 2025.

About

The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile , but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email:[email protected]

Telephone:02085835050

Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing: 4th August 2025.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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