Night Care Assistant - Carrickfergus, United Kingdom - Hive Healthcare
Description
Residents:
- Build positive relationships with the residents, know and understand their needs and interests.
- Collaboratively work with colleagues and other health and social care professionals to ensure care plans are person centered and meet the needs of the resident.
- Provide a professional service, ensuring dignity and respect, in assisting residents with personal care tasks, such as washing, dressing, eating, and using the toilet.
- Observe, monitor, and accurately record residents' physical and emotional wellbeing, and promptly report any changes to the Team Leader.
- Ensure the health and safety of residents by adhering to the safe moving and handling, transferring, and repositioning of residents.
- Accompany residents outside the residential home where required.
- Enable and encourage residents to participate in social and recreational activities.
- Build and maintain professional and positive relations with residents families.
- Report any adverse incidents without delay to a senior member of staff, including falls, accidents, complaints.
- Enable residents to eat and drink and give out medication as required
- Ensure that all work within the home is undertaken in line with regulations and standards, is resident focused and upholds the principles of respect, privacy, dignity, fulfilment, independence, and choice.
- Ensure residents' opinions and suggestions are listened to and their personal problems dealt with in a sensitive manner.
- Take responsibility for receiving and receipting all residents' monies and monitoring petty cash expenditure as applicable.
- Protect the resident from any form of harm or abuse and report any Safeguarding concerns without delay.
Administration:
- Contributing to maintenance of all records required by The Residential Home and as outlined in statutory regulations.
- Ensure all petty cash records are maintained accurately, in line with policy and procedure.
- Have an awareness of all Policies and Procedures and will work within these.
Health and Safety:
- Be aware of and act in accordance with The Health and Safety Policy.
- Conduct all activities in a manner which is safe to themselves and others.
- Report the need for repairs or maintenance in the home to the senior member of staff without delay.
- Perform housekeeping tasks, such as laundry, dusting, vacuuming, and changing bed linens.
- Complete night security checks in conjunction with residents requirements.
General:
- Maintain a certain level of flexibility in working time and hours to meet the needs of the service, if required.
- Understand and adhere to the NISCC standards of Conduct and Practice.
- Have an awareness of and adhere to RQIA Residential Care Homes Minimum Standards.
- Participate positively in all RQIA inspections.
- Undertake all mandatory training.
- Participate positively in all workplace meetings including probationary reviews, staff meetings, supervision, employee relations meetings.
- Willing to partake in personal development.
Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent
Salary:
£10.42-£11.81 per hour
Expected hours: 30 per week
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Onsite parking
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Night shift
Supplemental pay types:
- Signing bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Carrickfergus, BT38 8WP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Care home: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location:
In person
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