Care Assistant Plas Gwilym - Gwynedd, United Kingdom - Gwynedd Council
Description
Job title:
Care Assistant Plas Gwilym
Directorate:
Adults, Health and Well-being
Service:
Provider Services
Closing date:
30/03/2023 10:00
Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 30 Hour
Salary:
£16,874 - £17,180 a year
Pay Scale:
GS2
Location(s):
Cartref Plas Gwilym, Penygroes
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this [Information Pack
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Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually.
The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.
For further information about this post please contactSharron Jones ar
Interviews will be held, dates to be confirmed.
Application forms and further details available from, Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH
Tel:
CLOSING DATE:
10.00 AM, THURSDAY,
If you would like support to apply, Gwaith Gwynedd is available to help Gwynedd residents get into work
.
Personal attributes:
Essential:
To be committed and sensitive with the ability to work in a manner which shows respect for the individual's rights at all times.
Desirable:
Qualifications and relevant training:
Essential:
Desirable:
N.V.Q in Care
Training in Health and Safety e.g. moving and handling or first aid
Relevant experience:
Essential:
Desirable:
Experience of caring or involvement with the elderly
Experience of domestic work
Skills and specialist knowledge:
Essential:
Good interpersonal skills
Good communications skills
Understanding the needs of the elderly
Desirable:
Language requirements:
Essential:
Listening and Speaking - Intermediate Level:
Reading and Understanding - Intermediate Level:
Understand everyday correspondence on familiar issues at work.
Understand longer reports in Clear Welsh and be able to pick up the main points. (help may be required with the vocabulary).
Writing - Intermediate Level:
Purpose of the post:
- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- To ensure that the physical and emotional welfare of the users are met by operating individual User Plans. To ensure that a comfortable and clean environment is maintained in the home. This will all be done by following the Council's guidelines and policies
Responsibility for functions:
- To respect and use all equipment and apparatus in the home appropriately. To notify the manager or the person with responsibility for the home at the time as soon as possible of any deficiencies in any equipment, or utilities (water, electricity, gas etc.). To ensure appropriate management of user's property e.g. medicine and cash.
Main duties:
- To ensure that the dignity and independence of the service users are respected through good care practices and in accordance with the National Minimum Standards for Care Homes for Older People.
- To be sensitive to the need to respect the rights of individuals at all times.
- To maintain confidentiality on all aspects of the home's activities.
- To be part of the process to plan, prepare, implement and review the individual user's plan.
- To act as a key worker for a specified number of service users and attend review meetings and case conferences of those users and contributing written and oral reports.
- To undertake cleaning and laundry duties.
- To prepare meals and drinks as required and serve the meals.
- To undertake the task of receiving and distributing medicine in accordance with the Council's policy.
- To attend training courses and NVQ Level 2 particularly to ensure a consistent awareness of care issues.
- To register with the Care Council in accordance with national guidelines.
- Responsibility for selfdevelopment.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.
- Operate within the Council's policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
- Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council's information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
- Commitment to reducing the Council's carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council's Carbon Footprint.
- Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
- Responsibility to report any worry or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused
Special circumstances:
- The need to work unsociable hours
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