Care Assistant Support Worker

Description:

Main duties of the job:

As a care assistant, your duties may vary depending on the job location. Your usual responsibilities may include the following:

* Personal care: Assist with personal hygiene, assistance with using the toilet, assistance with incontinence including changing pads, commodes and catheter bags

* Support with eating and drinking: Ensuring that service users are encouraged to eat a healthy, balanced diet and the correct quantities, and ensuring the way they eat is appropriate for the service user

* Assisting with mobility: Use of a hoist or other aides, or assistance in standing and movement. Assisting with any physical activity whereby the service user needs support

* Domestic duties: Cleaning, emptying bins, washing where requested

* Record keeping: MAR chart (for medication), log book (recording each visit to communicate to the next carer), and care plan updates.

* Promoting independence: Allowing the service user to do as much as they can for themselves and only offer support where they need it.

Desired Skills & Qualities

* Work with empathy, honesty and integrity

* Safeguarding: Protecting the service user from significant harm, abuse or neglect. It is important that you follow the company “whistleblowing” policy to raise any concerns you may have about service users or fellow carers

* Respect dignity and ensure that care delivered is person centred

* Give companionship: Simply talking and listening to the service user and understanding their like and dislikes and encourage stimulating activities

* Ability to report accidents and incidents to the person in charge or senior member of staff on duty.

* Promoting health: Infection prevention, understanding illnesses including dementia and supporting with emergency first aid where necessary

* Effective communication with service users, fellow carers and your supervisor

* Punctuality: Arriving on time is paramount to the performance of your duties