Community Support Worker (Carer) – Domiciliary care
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Peterborough (PE2, PE3, PE4) |
| Company: | K2 Care Limited |
| Job type: | Contract |
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Summary
****To be considered for this role, you must currently live and have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide sponsorship****
K2 care believes in and actively strives to help promote full lives of our Service Users. We are domiciliary care service that provides care in the Service Users own home with the aim of encouraging independence while maintaining the highest levels of dignity and privacy. We offer the highest level of dedicated care delivered with compassion and understanding.
The care provided by K2 is intended to replicate the care normally given by family members and not those tasks that would normally be undertaken by a trained nurse.
A Community Support Worker is expected to:
• To help people with getting up in the morning, washing/bathing and dressing; helping with the undressing and getting to bed in the evening
• To make meals, drinks, snacks where necessary
• To provide assistance with toileting and with changing clothes and/or bedding where necessary; to empty and cleanse commodes, and wash and iron clothes and bed linen (which may include those items soiled by incontinence)
• To provide assistance with other tasks of daily living that the person cannot manage, which may include cleaning, shopping, collecting pensions and paying bills
• To encourage people towards a degree of independence and activity appropriate to their abilities
• Within an agreed plan and in consultation with the Home Care Manager, to contribute to the supervision of people who have a tendency to wander, neglect themselves or put themselves at risk.
• In consultation with the Home Care Manager, remind people to take medication, if necessary
• To be aware of the appropriate action to take in an emergency
• After appropriate training, to comply with Manual Handling legislation when moving Service Users
• To have the appropriate knowledge to the correct use of aids and equipments used by or with people in their normal daily lives, and to report any obvious defects
• To work with the Service User’s partner or other carers to maintain the Service User in their home
• To provide general support to the Service User as part of a caring team
From time to time you may be asked to fulfil duties related to the other areas of our business, as to the needs of the business; you are expected to carry these out with the same commitment as with all your work with K2 Care Ltd.
All duties are to be carried out with the up most care and with the assurance that they comply with all of K2 Care’s guidelines and policies.
Person Specification:
Essential
• Ability to build good relationships with others
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work alone
• Understanding of equality and diversity
• Willingness to learn
• Committed and have a passion to deliver excellent domiciliary care
Desirable
• Previous experience as a carer
• Diploma / NVQ / QCF Level 2 and 3
• Relevant training e.g. emergency first aid, moving and handling, food hygiene
• Have your own car and able to drive
Benefits you will receive:
• Competitive pay rate
• Free uniform and personal protective equipment
• Flexible working hours/ shift patterns
• Training will be given to aid development and knowledge in line with the Care Certificate
• Ongoing support including paid supervisions and refresher training
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured
We would expect you to work a minimum of 15 hours per week up to full time hours.
We are currently looking for carers who are specifically from the PE2, PE3 and PE4 areas of Peterborough.
K2 care believes in and actively strives to help promote full lives of our Service Users. We are domiciliary care service that provides care in the Service Users own home with the aim of encouraging independence while maintaining the highest levels of dignity and privacy. We offer the highest level of dedicated care delivered with compassion and understanding.
The care provided by K2 is intended to replicate the care normally given by family members and not those tasks that would normally be undertaken by a trained nurse.
A Community Support Worker is expected to:
• To help people with getting up in the morning, washing/bathing and dressing; helping with the undressing and getting to bed in the evening
• To make meals, drinks, snacks where necessary
• To provide assistance with toileting and with changing clothes and/or bedding where necessary; to empty and cleanse commodes, and wash and iron clothes and bed linen (which may include those items soiled by incontinence)
• To provide assistance with other tasks of daily living that the person cannot manage, which may include cleaning, shopping, collecting pensions and paying bills
• To encourage people towards a degree of independence and activity appropriate to their abilities
• Within an agreed plan and in consultation with the Home Care Manager, to contribute to the supervision of people who have a tendency to wander, neglect themselves or put themselves at risk.
• In consultation with the Home Care Manager, remind people to take medication, if necessary
• To be aware of the appropriate action to take in an emergency
• After appropriate training, to comply with Manual Handling legislation when moving Service Users
• To have the appropriate knowledge to the correct use of aids and equipments used by or with people in their normal daily lives, and to report any obvious defects
• To work with the Service User’s partner or other carers to maintain the Service User in their home
• To provide general support to the Service User as part of a caring team
From time to time you may be asked to fulfil duties related to the other areas of our business, as to the needs of the business; you are expected to carry these out with the same commitment as with all your work with K2 Care Ltd.
All duties are to be carried out with the up most care and with the assurance that they comply with all of K2 Care’s guidelines and policies.
Person Specification:
Essential
• Ability to build good relationships with others
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work alone
• Understanding of equality and diversity
• Willingness to learn
• Committed and have a passion to deliver excellent domiciliary care
Desirable
• Previous experience as a carer
• Diploma / NVQ / QCF Level 2 and 3
• Relevant training e.g. emergency first aid, moving and handling, food hygiene
• Have your own car and able to drive
Benefits you will receive:
• Competitive pay rate
• Free uniform and personal protective equipment
• Flexible working hours/ shift patterns
• Training will be given to aid development and knowledge in line with the Care Certificate
• Ongoing support including paid supervisions and refresher training
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured
We would expect you to work a minimum of 15 hours per week up to full time hours.
We are currently looking for carers who are specifically from the PE2, PE3 and PE4 areas of Peterborough.