Care Assistant-day Duty - Holywood, United Kingdom - Hive Healthcare

Hive Healthcare

Verified Company

Holywood, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Hours- 8am-8pm, 3 long days per week.

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 centred 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.