1 month contract with A Local Authority
Job Summary:
· To provide person-centred, high-quality community-based support to enable people with dementia and their carers to maintain their independence, choice and control.
Key Duties/Accountabilities:
· Provide intimate personal care to vulnerable adults.
· Provide person-centred, high-quality support to people with advanced dementia, including personal care. To support the carer to continue within their role.
· To ensure that maximising independence, choice, and control is at the heart of all service provision.
· Support service users to achieve maximum independence, choice, and control through the delivery of effective dementia-specialist support.
· Report to Reablement Therapists and work closely to achieve the outcomes specified within the support plan, seeking guidance as required.
Essential Experience Required:
· Appropriate experience of working with service users with a range of support needs and understanding of the relevant statutory frameworks / requirements plus current best practice in working with people with dementia.
· Knowledge of the following subjects from the Department of Health’s Dementia Core Skills Education and Training Framework:
1: Dementia awareness
2: Dementia identification, assessment, and diagnosis
3: Dementia risk reduction and prevention
4: Person-centred dementia care
5: Communication, interaction, and behaviour in dementia care
6: Health and well-being in dementia care
7: Pharmacological interventions in dementia care
8: Living well with dementia and promoting independence
9: Families and carers as partners in dementia care
10: Equality diversity and inclusion in dementia care
11: Law, ethics and safeguarding in dementia care
12: End of life dementia care
13: Research and evidence-based practice in dementia care.
Additional information to note:
· ICT skills including use of Microsoft applications, CM2000 and Mosaic.
· Enhanced DBS Required.
The closing date for this position is 10/05/24