Job Description
We are looking for a compassionate and dedicated Care Assistant to join our team in providing high-quality care to elderly individuals. As a Care Assistant, you will play a pivotal role in helping seniors maintain their dignity, independence, and wellbeing. Your efforts will ensure our clients receive the best possible support in a warm, respectful, and safe environment.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Personal Care Support: Assist clients with daily personal hygiene tasks, including bathing, dressing, grooming, and toileting.
2. Mobility Assistance: Help clients with moving around their homes, including transferring from bed to chair, using mobility aids, and accompanying them on walks.
3. Meal Preparation & Feeding: Prepare nutritious meals based on dietary needs and assist clients with feeding, ensuring their nutritional needs are met.
4. Medication Management: Support clients in taking prescribed medications as per care plans, and assist with organizing medication schedules.
5. Companionship & Emotional Support: Provide companionship and engage clients in meaningful conversations, activities, and hobbies, offering emotional and psychological support.
6. Household Assistance: Light housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, and ensuring the home environment is safe and tidy.
7. Monitoring Health & Wellbeing: Observe and report any changes in the client’s physical or mental condition to senior staff or family members, ensuring a timely response to any concerns.
8. Documentation: Keep accurate records of client care, including daily logs, medication administration, and any changes in health status.
Qualifications
9. Experience: Previous experience in a care role, particularly in elderly care, is highly desirable. However, training can be provided for the right candidate.
10. Compassion & Patience: A genuine passion for working with elderly individuals, showing empathy, and providing excellent care.
11. Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build rapport with both clients and family members.
12. Physical Fitness: Ability to assist clients with mobility and perform physical tasks associated with personal care.
13. Reliability: A responsible, punctual, and dependable individual who takes pride in their work and can follow through on tasks.
14. Qualification: [Any specific certifications or qualifications required, such as Care Certificate, NVQ, or equivalent.]
15. Background Check: Successful completion of an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check and reference checks
Additional Information
If you have a passion for caring and the motivation to help us achieve our ambitions, we would love to hear from you.
We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.This role is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure.