Duties Include:
• Medication management.
• Administer medication when required (e.g. staff training, meetings, or emergencies).
• Accompany visiting health professionals (e.g. nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians and phlebotomists), and record updates in Nourish, informing the LCC and CC.
• Under instruction, complete and send referrals to community MDT services.
• Coordinate annual vaccination programmes (flu, pneumonia, COVID), including consent, documentation, supporting vaccinators, and recording outcomes in Nourish.
• Arrange chiropody, optician, and dental visits, ensuring residents are seen, care records are updated, and Accounts are informed for billing.
• Support new resident admissions by completing initial care plans, risk assessments, Whzan observations, weights, inventories and paperwork, before handover to LCC/CC.
• Ensure Quick Tag for night checks is set up.
• Register new residents with GP (if agreed).
• Download completed assessments and share conditions with the care team so they are reflected in care plans.
• Maintain and update the DoLS tracking spreadsheet as cases progress.
• Provide reception cover during Business Administrator breaks.
• Support care staff where needed (e.g. answering call bells, escorting residents).
Previous medical related experience preferred.
Working 30 hours per week
Salary description
£15.70 - £16.00 per hour