Overview
Age Care Advice offers an award-winning Domiciliary Care service, providing Home Care, Companionship, Live-in Care and Personal Care to support clients in their daily living in the comfort of their own homes. The head office is based in Bourne; the company serves areas including Bourne, Stamford, Market Deeping and surrounding villages.
We have an excellent opportunity for the role of a Female Home Care Assistant to join our team in the Bourne and Stamford areas.
Responsibilities
* Perform light housekeeping tasks, such as dusting, vacuuming and changing bed clothes.
* Provide Companionship.
* Accompany Service Users to medical appointments.
* Observe, monitor and record Service Users\' physical and emotional well-being, and promptly report any changes to senior staff.
* Encourage and support Service Users to participate in social and recreational activities.
* Assist clients with personal care tasks, such as washing, dressing, eating and toileting, medication administration.
* Assist in the safe lifting, transferring, repositioning and movement of clients.
Requirements / Qualifications
* Are you a team player? Are you a kind and compassionate person looking to make a difference in people\'s lives? Then we want to hear from you!
* Proactive person who can use your own decision making
* Reliable, conscientious and committed
* Good team player but confident about lone working
* Flexible and willing
* Excellent Communication Skills
* Excellent Organisational Skills and Good Time Keeping
* A willingness to learn and adapt
* To have Resourcefulness, Stamina, Motivation and Perseverance
* To always maintain Professionalism
* Basic cookery skills and hygiene.
* Experience of carrying out personal care.
* Empathetic to people and kind
* A desire to genuinely help other people and make a difference
* Car Driver Essential
* Section 7(2b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 applies that there is a genuine occupational requirement for female staff for this position, Care Certificate preferred but not essential
* Driving Licence and use of a car
Benefits
* 21 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, pro rata
* Ongoing training and development
* Career progression opportunities
* Flexitime
* Free confidential employee counselling helpline
* Employee of the month award
* Paid Travel time and mileage
* Opportunity to gain Diplomas and other qualifications
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