Care Assistant - Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom - Homelife Carers

Description

Job description

Care worker

Contents

1.
Function

2.
Hours, place of work and salary/wages

3.
Relationships

4.
Typical duties and responsibilities
4.1 Personal care
4.2 Practical support
4.3 Health-related tasks
4.4 Specialist support
4.5 Other


5.
Person specification

1. Function

The role of the care worker is to deliver front-line care support services to the company's service users (including children).

In general, the support provided by care workers is that which would normally be undertaken by a caring relative and does not include tasks which would normally be undertaken by a qualified nurse.

It is expected that the care worker will fulfil their responsibilities in accordance with the company's policies and procedures and service aims.

2. Hours, place of work and salary/wages

The care worker will not be based at a particular location but will report to the designated local office (and attend the office or other sites as required for training, supervision, meetings etc.).

The position entails flexible hours unless otherwise stated in the individual's contract of employment.


3. Relationships
The care worker observes and maintains the following relationships:

• He/she is accountable to the Branch Manager and their delegates (including Care Co

- ordinators and Supervisors), as well as to senior management, the Directors of the Company and to any other nominated superiors.

• He/she may have regular contact and interaction with administrative support staff, trainers and others in the course of carrying out his/her duties.
• He/she may have contact with other persons and professionals, in particular social workers, relatives and advocates of service users, healthcare professionals, occupational therapists etc.

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4. Typical duties and responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of the care worker may be many and varied, and will be dependent on the content of any individual care plan, but tasks will typically be of the kinds described below.

Further detail may be found in the Care Worker Handbook.


4.1 Personal care
Personal care, which may include intimate care, may include (but it not necessarily limited to) the following:

• Washing the body (including intimate areas);
• Washing the hands and face;
• Bathing;
• Washing and styling the hair;
• Assistance with makeup and personal grooming;
• Shaving;
• Brushing the teeth;
• Caring for dentures;
• Cleaning of and assistance with glasses or contact lenses;
• Skin care;
• Assisting in or out of bed;
• Assisting to dress or undress;
• Assisting to prepare meals;
• Support to eat or drink;
• Assisting to use the toilet or a commode;
• Assisting to management continence;
• Monitoring skin condition (e.g. pressure sores);
• Assisting in moving from one position to another;
• Assisting to use aids to daily living and rehabilitation;
• Support with exercise (including rehabilitation exercises);
• Use and care of hearing aids;
• Use and care of prosthetics, calipers etc.
• Night sitting;
• Day sitting.

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Personal care may be delivered at any time of the night or day.


4.2 Practical support
Practical support covers a broad range of tasks other than personal care and includes (but is not necessarily limited to):

• Washing up;
• Managing food and household stocks (e.g. rotating food in fridge);
• Domestic cleaning (including vacuuming, dusting, polishing, cleaning bathrooms, kitchens etc.);
• Making and changing beds;
• Clearing out refuse (including recycling);
• Laundry and ironing;
• Management of thermostats, hea