We’re Norfolk Affinity Care Services Ltd, a Supported living service in Norfolk, providing a range of care and support services for individuals with learning disabilities, adults, and older people, some of whom may require personal care and may present challenging behavior or have dementia. Our main priority for this job role is to find people with the right values, behaviors, and attitudes that match our own! We’re seeking to recruit some great new support workers; people with the right values and behaviors to work in our home care service – could this be you?
The Ideal candidate will have:
* Shift patterns: Short calls, 10 hr shift with 2 hr break, 12 hr day shift, 12 hr night shift, and live-in care (7 days on with a 2 hour break per day).
* Drivers: Prefer drivers, but we can take a few non-drivers.
* Qualification Level: We provide our own training.
* Female & Male candidates: Both female and male carers.
* Staff benefits: We provide company cars, 28 days annual leave, uniform, technology to track hours worked, and an app with sat navigation capability enabling efficient access to clients’ home addresses.
* Fuel allowance: We use company cars, but if a carer uses their own, we pay £0.35 per mile.
* Salary: £12.21 starting rate, which goes up depending on experience.
* Weekend works: We offer alternate weekends depending on client needs.
Purpose of Position:
To share with other staff in meeting the personal care needs of service users in a way that respects the dignity of the individual and promotes independence. Care provided by care assistants is expected to include care that would reasonably be given by members of the service user’s own family and will not include tasks that would normally be undertaken by a trained nurse. Only when trained to do so would care workers undertake any specialist tasks.
Principal Responsibilities:
1. To assist service users with all personal care needs including undressing, washing, bathing, and toileting needs.
2. To assist service users with mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including incontinence, and help in the use and care of aids and personal equipment.
3. To support and care for service users who are dying.
4. To engage in the promotion of mental and physical well-being of service users through talking to them, taking them out, and sharing with them in activities such as reading, writing, hobbies, and recreation.
5. To make and change beds and perform all domestic tasks within the household.
6. Where required, to assist with service user’s laundry, including using a laundrette where necessary.
7. To read and write reports and take part in staff and service users’ meetings and training activities as directed.
8. To perform such other duties as may reasonably be required.
9. To comply with the organisation’s policies and procedures at all times, which includes the service users' care plan and medication needs.
10. To report to the registered manager any significant changes in the health or circumstances of a service user.
11. To encourage service users to remain as independent as possible.
12. All staff are required to attend mandatory training where appropriate, including induction and National Vocational Qualifications or their equivalent.
13. To enable and assist service users to maintain as much autonomy and independence as possible on a day-to-day basis.
14. To support and assist service users in identifying risks and recording the support plan which minimizes and manages the identified risk.
15. To agree and record with the service user their needs, wishes, and preferences and how these will be met.
16. To identify and support appropriately service users with capacity and those who lack capacity.
17. To record appropriately all decisions which relate to service users who lack capacity.
18. To involve and consult with service users, their families, representatives, or advocates to ensure that the service user’s views are expressed and acted upon.
19. To attend reviews of care as appropriate.
20. To update and continually improve practice by a mutually agreed method which may include attendance at staff meetings, learning support briefings, and one-to-one supervision.
21. To take responsibility in conjunction with the line manager for identifying further learning.
22. To be aware of requirements regarding codes of practice and relevant codes of conduct where appropriate issued by professional bodies.
23. To understand the requirement of the New Fundamental Standard Regulations 9 – 20, in relation to the Care Quality Commission inspection regime and its importance to your workplace practice.
24. To promote good practice and be vigilant in recognizing and reporting practice which does not meet the defined standard.
25. To assist and contribute to any regulatory body inspection or monitoring visit.
26. To act always to safeguard service users from any form of abuse and to report such concerns immediately.
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