Overview
Purpose of job: Care/Residential Shift
Responsibilities
* Support of people using a service for adults with care and support needs.
* To assist and support people using the service with personal care and physical tasks e.g. assistance with dressing, washing, bathing and with meals.
* Social duties (e.g. talking and helping people using the service to maintain contact with family, friends and community, and recreation) aimed at creating a supporting atmosphere where people using the service can achieve maximum independence. Encourage and assist people using the service with individual and group social and therapeutic activities of the service.
* To participate in the normal domestic tasks connected with the daily routine of the service and the personal needs of the people using the service.
* To enter details of incidents and events occurring during a period of duty in the appropriate records, and to report verbally to the senior member of staff on duty before leaving the premises.
* To report and record significant matters in the lives of people using the service in accordance with the department's policy to Access to Records.
* To maintain and update care plans and risk assessments with people using the service and senior staff on duty.
* To distribute/administer medication as instructed.
* To attend and participate in staff meetings and supervisions.
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