Are you passionate about making a positive impact in people's lives? Innovative Start is looking for compassionate, dedicated Domiciliary Care Support Workers to join our team, providing high-quality, person-centered care to clients in their own homes. As a Domiciliary Care Worker with Innovative Start, you'll play a vital role in helping individuals maintain their independence and well-being, offering support with daily activities and providing companionship.
Main duties of the job
A Domiciliary Care Worker provides essential assistance to individuals in their own homes, helping them maintain independence and quality of life. Duties include personal care, such as bathing, dressing, and grooming; assisting with mobility; meal preparation; administering medications; and offering companionship. They also support clients with daily tasks like housekeeping, shopping, and managing appointments, while observing and reporting any changes in the client's condition to ensure their well-being.
About us
Our Vision is to provide the highest standards of care for the people that we support, giving them the opportunity to lead as independent, active, fulfilled lives as possible, to achieve exceptional outcomes.
Job responsibilities
Post: Domiciliary Care Worker
OVERALL OBJECTIVES
Domiciliary Care Workers promote service users to remain independent in their own homes. Our Domiciliary Care Workers deliver care in the home and other venues, providing a reliable, personal service which always meets the individual's personal needs and respects confidentiality.
Duties and tasks will include the provision of personal, social, and enabling care and support to service users within their own home and in the community.
To assist the Team Leader in the resource planning, coaching, and mentoring of a team of staff and co-ordinating the daily provision of care and support for customers to ensure the delivery of a high-quality, responsive and efficient service.
To provide care and support to people with disabilities to enable them to maintain their tenancies and to achieve their aspirations for independent living.
The duties will be determined by the individual needs of the customers being supported. The context in which care and support is provided may vary according to the user's living environment.
Depending upon location, the care and support provided may be to people with Dementia, people with learning disabilities, neurodiversity, people with mental health-related support needs, or a combination of these.
KEY TASKS
CARE & SUPPORT SERVICES
To provide the highest quality care to service users in their own homes in accordance with their care and support plan, in a person-centered approach.
Identify service users' individual support needs and, through consultation and agreement with the service user (and, where appropriate, their social worker), devise and implement suitable care and support plans to ensure that identified care and support needs are met.
Encourage and support service users to live as fully and independently as possible within the local community, providing information, emotional, organizational, and practical support and training as appropriate.
Social duties include preparing and cooking meals, essential cleaning, shopping, bill payment, and fire maintenance.
Personal care includes washing, dressing, bathing, toileting, and medication monitoring and/or assistance.
Deliver care and support in a manner that is sensitive to the service user's culture, disability, race, age, sexuality, marital or civil partnership status, transgender status, or religion/belief.
Enabling and support may include such activities as supervising, monitoring, and coaching to empower service users to be as independent as possible and have control over their own lives. Care workers may also be required to escort or accompany service users to outings, appointments, or other events.
Participate in staff development (including supervision), training, and performance appraisals as required.
To carry out risk assessments as and when necessary due to the changing needs and aspirations of users.
Ensure compliance with Fundamental Standards and Innovative Start policies and procedures.
Organize and provide appropriate care and support for service users preparing to move on to greater independence. Contribute to the protection of service users from abuse and support service users when they are distressed.
Liaise with housing, health and social care professionals, benefits, welfare and advocacy agencies, and other landlords as well as family members, as appropriate.
STAFF & TEAM WORKING
Work within a team, supporting colleagues and attending team meetings, recording, and sharing information appropriately and confidentially.
To assist the Team Leader/Care Coordinators to achieve service objectives and assist in the development and implementation of policies, practices, and procedures. Keep up to date with issues relevant to care & support, welfare benefits, and other relevant legislation.
To undertake all core training required for this post and other training and professional development activities as required.
Undertake other delegated tasks and responsibilities that fall within your capabilities. To be aware of and adhere to the company's current values, policies & procedures. To always comply with the company's legal, contractual, and regulatory responsibilities in relation to the above duties.
Person Specification
Experience
* Previous experience of working within a care environment
* Ability to use own initiative
* Ability to communicate effectively
* Ability to learn new skills and gain new experience
* Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients
* Lone Working
* Experience of working in care
Qualifications
* Care Certificate / Qualified to NVQ level 2 in Health and Social Care
* Qualified to NVQ level 3
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Address
Depending on experience Mileage Allowance/Fuel Card
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Reference number
L0117-24-0001
Job locations
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