Care Worker
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £12.00 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Southwark, South East London |
| Company: | Southwark Disablement Association |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Duties will include, but are not limited to, the following.
1. Personal Care Tasks
Getting up: Assisting service users to get out of bed and/or getting back to bed in the evening. This may involve using a hoist or any other suitable equipment used for moving and positioning service users.
Transfers: Assisting service users in transferring from bed to chair or vice versa by means of physical support in assisting service users to move, or by means of a transfer board or using a mobile or track-ceiling hoist etc when necessary.
Toileting: Assisting a service user to make use of the toilet or commode, and emptying and cleaning all types of commode as necessary.
Continence Care: Care of catheter bags including changing, emptying and cleaning of bags, also changing colostomy bags and continence pads.
Bathing or washing: Assisting service users with washing body, face, hands, legs, feet and/or hair; or assisting with strip wash, showering or bathing etc as necessary to maintain good standards of hygiene.
Dressing: Assisting service users to dress or undress, and put on socks and footwear etc.
Grooming: Assisting service users to shave, comb hair, brush teeth etc.
Eating & Drinking: Assisting service users with serving meal and cutting up food when required, and with using knife and fork etc as appropriate, also assisting with spoon feeding or drinking as and when required. Assistance may also involve feeding through a PEG feed.
Food Preparation: Assisting service users in all food preparation tasks and cooking meals, preparing snacks and drinks with regards to individual, cultural or religious
considerations, while encouraging service users to follow a healthy diet.
Medication: Assisting service users in collecting prescriptions and medication where applicable, and supervising service users’ administration of the medication which has already been prepared by the nurse. Where applicable administering medication when required using organisational policy and guidelines for dealing with service users medication, and making appropriate entries accurately on the service user’s medication administration record sheets.
2. Health & Safety
Ensuring that all reasonable precautions are taken to provide and maintain working conditions which are safe, healthy and compliant with all statutory requirements and organisational policies for Health and Safety.
2.1) Protection of Service Users
Promoting and protecting the health, safety and welfare of service users at all times.
Protecting service users from abuse, neglect and self-harm.
2.2) Risk Assessments
Carrying out regular risk assessments throughout the course of your work to identify hazards and resulting risks to the service user, yourself and other persons who may be affected. Assessments should include risks for service users in maintaining their independence and daily living within the home.
Undertaking assessment of risks associated with moving and positioning service users.
3. Social Duties
Enabling service users to maintain contact with families, friends and the community.
Helping to maintain service users dignity.
4. Emergency Services
Making contact and communicating with doctors, district nurses, chemists, or emergency services as and when appropriate, and reporting such occurrence to your line manager. Also contacting Gas, Electricity Board or the Water Authority in an emergency, for the service user.
5. Practical Care
5.1) Shopping & Escorting: Preparing shopping list in consultation with the service user when required, collecting service users benefits, dealing with bills, shopping and putting
shopping items away.
5.2) Laundry: Assisting service users with their washing either at home or taking washing to the launderette, and with ironing when necessary, as well as folding up and putting clothes away.
5.3) Housework: Vacuuming, cleaning, bed making, changing bed linens, emptying bins and other reasonable tasks to keep the service users home in a clean, tidy and hygienic state, while paying due regard to health and safety issues.
6. Communication & Administration
Working with service users in a sensitive and supportive way, encouraging independence and promoting service users rights to choice.
Monitoring, identifying and reporting to office staff any changes in service users’ abilities, health, behaviour, needs or circumstances.
Regular contact and communication with the office staff or the out-of-hours service, giving regular verbal reports and written reports when required, and taking instructions on the phone or in person as appropriate.
Reporting and completing accident / incident or other forms as and when required with due regard to organisational policy
and procedure for report writing and record keeping.
Writing reports and making appropriate entries in Care Record sheets.
Assisting service users with their mail and correspondence and in responding to any enquiries via the telephone, letters or in person when required.
7. Carrying out other reasonable tasks requested by or in consultation with the service user, and agreed by your line manager.
The list of duties in this Job Description is not to be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive and you may be required to undertake various other reasonable tasks commensurate with your duties.
1. Personal Care Tasks
Getting up: Assisting service users to get out of bed and/or getting back to bed in the evening. This may involve using a hoist or any other suitable equipment used for moving and positioning service users.
Transfers: Assisting service users in transferring from bed to chair or vice versa by means of physical support in assisting service users to move, or by means of a transfer board or using a mobile or track-ceiling hoist etc when necessary.
Toileting: Assisting a service user to make use of the toilet or commode, and emptying and cleaning all types of commode as necessary.
Continence Care: Care of catheter bags including changing, emptying and cleaning of bags, also changing colostomy bags and continence pads.
Bathing or washing: Assisting service users with washing body, face, hands, legs, feet and/or hair; or assisting with strip wash, showering or bathing etc as necessary to maintain good standards of hygiene.
Dressing: Assisting service users to dress or undress, and put on socks and footwear etc.
Grooming: Assisting service users to shave, comb hair, brush teeth etc.
Eating & Drinking: Assisting service users with serving meal and cutting up food when required, and with using knife and fork etc as appropriate, also assisting with spoon feeding or drinking as and when required. Assistance may also involve feeding through a PEG feed.
Food Preparation: Assisting service users in all food preparation tasks and cooking meals, preparing snacks and drinks with regards to individual, cultural or religious
considerations, while encouraging service users to follow a healthy diet.
Medication: Assisting service users in collecting prescriptions and medication where applicable, and supervising service users’ administration of the medication which has already been prepared by the nurse. Where applicable administering medication when required using organisational policy and guidelines for dealing with service users medication, and making appropriate entries accurately on the service user’s medication administration record sheets.
2. Health & Safety
Ensuring that all reasonable precautions are taken to provide and maintain working conditions which are safe, healthy and compliant with all statutory requirements and organisational policies for Health and Safety.
2.1) Protection of Service Users
Promoting and protecting the health, safety and welfare of service users at all times.
Protecting service users from abuse, neglect and self-harm.
2.2) Risk Assessments
Carrying out regular risk assessments throughout the course of your work to identify hazards and resulting risks to the service user, yourself and other persons who may be affected. Assessments should include risks for service users in maintaining their independence and daily living within the home.
Undertaking assessment of risks associated with moving and positioning service users.
3. Social Duties
Enabling service users to maintain contact with families, friends and the community.
Helping to maintain service users dignity.
4. Emergency Services
Making contact and communicating with doctors, district nurses, chemists, or emergency services as and when appropriate, and reporting such occurrence to your line manager. Also contacting Gas, Electricity Board or the Water Authority in an emergency, for the service user.
5. Practical Care
5.1) Shopping & Escorting: Preparing shopping list in consultation with the service user when required, collecting service users benefits, dealing with bills, shopping and putting
shopping items away.
5.2) Laundry: Assisting service users with their washing either at home or taking washing to the launderette, and with ironing when necessary, as well as folding up and putting clothes away.
5.3) Housework: Vacuuming, cleaning, bed making, changing bed linens, emptying bins and other reasonable tasks to keep the service users home in a clean, tidy and hygienic state, while paying due regard to health and safety issues.
6. Communication & Administration
Working with service users in a sensitive and supportive way, encouraging independence and promoting service users rights to choice.
Monitoring, identifying and reporting to office staff any changes in service users’ abilities, health, behaviour, needs or circumstances.
Regular contact and communication with the office staff or the out-of-hours service, giving regular verbal reports and written reports when required, and taking instructions on the phone or in person as appropriate.
Reporting and completing accident / incident or other forms as and when required with due regard to organisational policy
and procedure for report writing and record keeping.
Writing reports and making appropriate entries in Care Record sheets.
Assisting service users with their mail and correspondence and in responding to any enquiries via the telephone, letters or in person when required.
7. Carrying out other reasonable tasks requested by or in consultation with the service user, and agreed by your line manager.
The list of duties in this Job Description is not to be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive and you may be required to undertake various other reasonable tasks commensurate with your duties.