- Supporting an individual with their social and physical activities and supporting relationships with family, friends and other people living in the home
- Supporting their healthcare needs by booking and supporting appointments such as GP, Hospital, or other specialist services and social support needs.
- Enabling them to communicate with others, and sometimes advocating for them.
- Offering support when they display distressed and complex behaviors.
- Helping with personal care such as using the toilet, showering or bathing, and dressing.
- Supporting occupation, meaningful engagement, and activities such as art therapy.
- Helping them to monitor their health, for example weighing themselves, taking their body temperature, or keeping track of diet, menstruation and bowel movements.
- Reminding them of the importance of taking their medication.
- To act as a key worker for designated individuals.
- To attend and participate in team meetings, supervisions, appraisals and training as requested and required by your Manager.
- To be familiar with and work within the organisation and the service's values, policies and procedures, maintaining records and reports accordingly
- Write notes and messages – numeracy, literacy and verbal skills.
- Communicate with people with differing communication needs.
- Encourage and influence.
- Understand and follow instructions and procedures.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Mixed methods and mediums of communication.
- Analyses and evaluates given information.
- Adapts style and approach appropriate to situation or task.
- Structures tasks/activities.
- Pre-empts issues and trouble-shoots.
- Refers appropriate decisions to line manager.
- Challenge, or suggest new ways of working, to promote the efficiency of the unit or team.
- Aware of cultural and individual differences in all interactions and service areas.
- Demonstrate interest, care and attention.
- Create a positive impression.
- Collaborate with residents and their families where appropriate – tailoring service to meet individual needs.
- Promptly respond to or refer to team leader/line manager (as appropriate to role), issues of residents or colleagues' health or well-being.
- Contribute to maintaining a safe and secure environment – reporting faults, repairs or hazards through appropriate channels.
- Unquestionably embodies the Trust's values and behaviours internally and externally.
- Works effectively as part of a team.
- Build relationships of trust with others (team, residents and their family & friends).
- Potential exposure to challenging, physical or emotional situations.
- Previous experience of working with people with learning disabilities
- Creative thinker who can adapt to the needs of the person they work with.
- Ability to build a therapeutic relationship with the individual(s), working together to understand their needs and how they want/need to live their lives.
- Committed to protecting the person's human rights.
- Ability to work on their own initiative and priorities their workload.
- Learning and reflective capabilities – (thinking about what you do and why you do things in a certain way)
- Excellent communication and listening skills.
- Empathy, compassion, patience and an appreciation of a person's desire to live life the way they choose.
- Emotional and physical resilience
- The ability to work under pressure
- Duties must be carried out in compliance with St Monica Trust's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
- This role profile contains the principal accountabilities relating to this post and does not describe in detail all the duties required to carry them out.
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and this means that any criminal conviction, including spent convictions, must be made known at the time of the application.
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Description
Are you passionate about doing a good job? Do you share our values? then we hope you'll consider applying to join our team.
Key Results
Duties will include:
Skills and experience
Communication
Thinking Style
Well-being and Values
Working with others
Other Skills and Qualifications
Characteristics and Skills required:
Once employed as a Care Assistant you will be given support to obtain the Care Certificate, which will help you in your role.
Please note- this is a 1:1 post but you will be working alongside other members of the team as well.
The hours are a mixture of Early & Late shifts: 08:00-14:00hrs & 12:30-18:30hrs.
Pay: £11.81 per hour basic.
Additional information
Salary Ranges:
£21, £21,494.20Time Type:
Part timeIf you have any queries please email our Recruitment Team -