Senior Care Assistant
Newcastle, NE17
£14.21 per hour
Our Senior Care Practitioner posts are varied, and no two days will be the same. All our residents are individuals, and they deserve to be treated as such. However, as a general guide, duties will include:
* Mentoring and coaching the team to be competent and knowledgeable in all aspects of their role.
* Supporting residents - and supervising the care team - with a range of personal care needs, taking time to ensure that people retain their dignity, respect and privacy.
* Ensure residents’ health care needs are being met at all times with comprehensive, individual and detailed care plans, ensuring that care staff understand and follow those plans. Review and update care plans at least monthly or as per the Manager’s request.
* Dispensing medication accurately and maintaining records.
* Assisting and supervising dining / beverages and other services such as laundry, bed making and fresh linen.
* Taking time to offer people a range of realistic options and choices about the support available to them, encouraging independence, individuality and mobility.
* Spending time listening to people and understanding their different needs and priorities. • Ensuring all care is documented and agreed procedures and processes are followed at all times, including using electronic care plan technology
Actively support the delivery of wider lifestyle activities such as arts and crafts, musical evenings, gardening, shopping trips and social occasions
Other responsibilities:
Supervision: you will be expected to reflect on the work that you do and the impact you have on the people you support and work with, through regular supervisions as an integral part of professional development, including an annual performance review.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS): a satisfactory DBS check is required for this role.
Health and safety: you must follow agreed procedures and standards in your work to ensure you provide a safe and effective service to others, including in respect of minimising the risk of injury or disease.
Safeguarding: means protecting people's health, wellbeing, and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. You have a duty of care, which is a legal and professional obligation to safeguard those in your care. This extends to witnessing them in others care; using your services; exposed to your or others’ activities. This means always acting in their best interests, not acting – or failing to act – in a way that causes harm, and acting within your abilities without taking on anything that lies outside of your competence
Skills and experience:
Essential
* Experience working as a carer in a care home or similar environment.
* Experience supervising a person or team.
* An understanding of person-centred care and the importance of understanding, maintaining and following care plans
Education and qualifications:
* Health and social care qualification – Adult Social Care Level 3 - or equivalent or a commitment to undertake further training and development relevant to the role.
* Good standard of written and verbal English.
* We will support employees to develop these, and other core skills needed