Healthcare jobs in Penrith

Health Care Assistant
Croftfield Care Home
JOB DESCRIPTION – CARE ASSISTANT

Job purpose - To work as part of the caring team, delivering the highest standards of individual care to residents, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and dignity, and that individual’s rights to independence and choice are met.

Key Responsibilities

1. To provide the highest level of personal care (toileting, bathing etc) and attention to residents, following individual care plans carefully and ensuring that all contact is polite, friendly, warm and supportive. To act as a key worker for a named group of residents, ensuring that these responsibilities are carried out in full.

2. To understand and comply with requirements such as Health & Safety, COSHH, all aspects of the Care Standards Act, to maintain a safe environment throughout the home.

3. To always be alert to residents physical and mental well being, immediately reporting any changes in a resident’s condition to a senior person on duty, and to accurately maintain and update residents’ records as required.

4. To respect and maintain confidentiality of resident’s personal information at all times, including resident’s behaviour and actions and any incidents that may occur in the course of day to day care.

5. Be understanding and patient towards residents and their needs, and encourage, assist and support residents to participate in leisure activities as appropriate to the individual, ensuring their social and emotional needs are met.

6. Making and changing beds, tidying resident’s rooms (with the resident’s permission) undertaking cleaning duties as needed and generally assisting in ensuring that the Home is kept clean, to be aware of infection control responsibilities, pleasant and welcoming at all times.

7. Helping to serve meals and drinks at meal times and other times when required, taking care to present meals and refreshments in an attractive way, with polite and courteous service. Also, to provide the appropriate level of support and help for residents who need assistance with their food and drink.

8. To attend mandatory training as required.

Relevant facts and figures relating to the job

Key worker to designated residents.

Job context

This role is a team role, but with clear responsibility for specified residents. Clear communication with other team members is essential.

Key challenges

To ensure that each team member treats residents in the way that they would expect to be treated themselves.

Key measures

Supervision meetings with Manager.

Person specification

Good numeracy and literacy skills.

A warm and friendly disposition

Good communication skills.

A strong team worker.

Reliable and punctual.

Willingness to develop new skills (e.g. QCF Qualification and Credit Framework 2 in Care)

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £12.80-£13.50 per hour

Work Location: In person