Night Care Assistant - Wolverhampton, United Kingdom - COTON CARE

COTON CARE

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Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Job Description —
NIGHT SUPPORT WORKER
Working in a care home with up 27 residents, dementia and generally elderly.

Experience is required in care work.

Position:
Night Care Assistant Responsible to: Head of Home Purpose of position:

To provide night duty cover in the home and to undertake certain domestic duties which can be performed during the night hours.

Principal Responsibilities

To carry out a regular check on service users at intervals determined by the head of home and with due regard for service users' privacy and dignity.
To carry out regular checks on the building at intervals determined by the head of home with special reference to fire prevention and security.
To answer emergency bells or calls from service users, to assess the situation, to deal with the service user seeking help and to summon the senior care staff on call wherever necessary.
To assist service users who need help or reassurance.
To join with the day care staff in preparing service users for bed or assisting them in the morning, as directed.
In the time available between attending to service users undertake domestic duties primarily in the fields of laundry/ironing, food preparation, table laying or dusting/cleaning, as directed.
To maintain accurate notes and records in service users' notes and to handover information to day care staff that is relevant to the ongoing care of individual service users.
Such other duties as may reasonably be required.
To ensure that individuals care plans are up to date, legible and accurate.

Person Specification — Essential Criteria

Self motivated.2. Organised.3. Flexible.4. Caring.5. Sensitive to the needs of others and to the sick or infirm.6. An active team player but also able to work on own initiative.7.

A good communicator.

All staff are required to respect the confidentiality of all matters that they might learn in the course of their employment.

All staff are expected to respect the requirements under the Data Protection Act 1998.

All staff must ensure that they are aware of their responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974.

Hours of work:
part-time night duty.

2 to 3 nights per week Salary:
£9.50 to £9.65per /hour

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time

Reference ID:

NIGHT SUPPORT WORKER

Job Type:
Contract

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time
, Permanent

Salary:
From £10.42 per hour

Expected hours:
per week

Schedule: