Job Title: Care Assistant
Responsible to: Senior Care Assistant
Accountable to: Home Manager
Purpose of the Role:
To ensure that service users' physical, personal, psychological, spiritual and cultural needs are met, whilst promoting personal and physical independence and choice.
Key Tasks:
To assist in the direct care of all aspects of the service users' assessed needs, which may include;
· Helping with the admission of new service users, including helping them to settle in, introducing them to other people and listing of their property and clothing.
· Assisting people in washing, bathing, dressing and undressing.
· Assisting people with their toileting needs, including continence promotion.
· Helping with mobility difficulties, which will include use of equipment, once trained.
· Supporting people with any communication difficulties including use of hearing aids and glasses.
· Participating in basic the delivery of care under the supervision of the senior e.g. bathing in bed, pressure area, mouth care, and eye care.
· Assisting with mobility, including use of mobility aids e.g. hoists and stand aids, where appropriate.
· Answering emergency bells
· Reading care files to be aware of individual needs and writing reports in case notes, as required.
· Completing other records including fluid, nutrition, personal hygiene and repositioning charts.
· Taking part in staff meetings.
· Changing beds, tidying bedrooms and wardrobes and emptying commodes.
· Light cleaning duties, as necessary.
· Undertaking the role of key worker to a number of service users.
· Welcoming all visitors professionally and warmly.
· Answering the telephone, taking clear written messages and passing to the correct person in a timely way.
· Undertaking any other duties as required, in order to keeping the care home
running smoothly, as delegated by senior staff or Home Manager.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £12.21 per hour
Ability to commute/relocate:
* Houghton le Spring DH4 5EH: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person