Community Care Assistant

Overview

• Shift patterns: 7am to 2pm and 3pm to 10pm
• Full time and part time contracts available
• Mileage paid
• Alternate weekend availability essential
• Flexibility needed
• Previous experience essential
• DBS on update system or within one year advantageous

Purpose of position

• To provide personal care and support to people in their own homes in line with an agreed personalised care and support plan.

• To care for service users in non-discriminatory ways, respecting each user's privacy, dignity, individuality, cultural and social background and independence.

• To work with other staff employed by the service and were involved with staff from other services and Healthcare professionals in order to provide an integrated approach to people's health and care.

• To work in partnership with service users' family members and friends who are involved in their care and support.

• To contribute to individual mental and psychological wellbeing.

• To be familiar with the service's safeguarding policy and procedures and ensure that it is always implemented.

Principal responsibilities

In line with an individual's plan of care and support and the care worker's training and competence:

• help with their activities of daily living, e.g getting up in the morning, going to bed at nights, dressing, undressing, washing, bathing and toileting
• help service users overcome any mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including helping in the use and care of aids and personal equipment
• help make a person physically comfortable by, e.g. making and changing beds, tidying rooms, doing light cleaning, laundry and emptying commodes when used, washing and disinfecting them
• help with their eating and drinking by, e.g preparing meals, snacks and drinks and helping/assisting users to eat and drink if they cannot or have difficulty in doing this by themselves and also offering support to make healthy choices
• help users take their prescribed medication (as specified in their care plans)
• contribute to the care of service users who are temporarily sick and needing, e.g. bed nursing, help with feeding, etc
• contribute as needed to a person's end-of-life care
• promote users' mental and physical activity by, e.g. talking to them, helping them do things for themselves, prompting, taking them shopping, sharing with them in activities such as reading, writing, hobbies and recreations
• read and write detailed reports and take part in staff and service users' meetings and in training activities as directed
• comply with the service's guidelines and policies at all times, eg in respect of dress code, wearing of identity badges, travelling and security and safeguarding of service users
• report to your line management any significant changes in the health or circumstances of a service user
• encourage and enable service users to remain as independent as possible
• perform such other duties as may reasonably be required.

Person specification - Must have criteria

The following personal attributes are considered essential to the post of care worker.

The job holder must be:

• self-motivated
• organised
• flexible
• caring
• punctual
• professional and service oriented
• sensitive to the needs of others and to the needs of vulnerable people
• an active team player but also able to work on own initiative
• a good communicator
• able to follow care planning requirements and instructions.
• Driver licence and owner of their own transport

Person specification - desirable criteria

The job holder must:

• be flexible in terms of availability, working hours, adaptability
• have previous experience of care work or undergo training

All staff are required to respect the confidentiality of all matters that they might learn in the course of their employment. All staff are expected to respect the requirements under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation.

All staff must ensure that they are aware of their responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work, etc

COVID-19 considerations:

Health and Safety:

We take your safety seriously. We ensure that we meet all Government guidelines when it comes to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The safety of our staff and service users is paramount.

Female only due to client preferences.