Job _title_ Home Support Assistant

Responsible to Care Manager

Responsible for N/A

Located at In Community

Requirements of the Post

• Caring personality with empathy for older people;
• A hands-on, proactive member of the care team;
• Ability to work as a member of a team and on their own;
• Good written and spoken English to a level capable of accurately recording care notes, and communicating effectively with people.


Duties.
• To Visit service users as directed by your rota.
• To provide personal care as directed by the care plan to a service user. Personal care consists of assistance with washing, bathing, showering, dressing, feeding, toileting, catheter care and continence care.
• To assist with transfers safely e.g. from bed to chair. Using Health & Safety Regulations.
• To provide meals as per instructed by the care plan.
• To be aware of, and to follow the company’s policy on handling service users money.
• To assist with medicines, as instructed in the care plan.
• To record legible notes in the service users care manual, giving details of the care provided on each visit.
• To be aware of the service users physical and emotional well-being, observing improvement & deterioration and to report to the office.
• To bring to the attention of the office any concerns about a service users health or well being.
• To respond to a crisis situation, finding the service user on the floor, not at home etc and to summon the appropriate persons.
• To complete time sheets and deliver them to the office on time.
• To report any suspected form of abuse on a service user or another colleague to the office.
• To observe the companies code of practice at all times.
• To attend regular training sessions.


Main Purpose of Position


To preserve the privacy, confidentiality and dignity of individual service users, whilst demonstrating an understanding of their rights;
to ensure that all care needs of service user’s are met in full, according to the care plan;
undertaking of risk assessments at a service user’s home and reporting any problems to the Care Manager or Coordinators;
Recording of accurate care given information in a service user’s care plan;
to report any change of circumstances in a service user’s health or environment, to the Care Manager or Coordinators;
to promote the independence of service user’s in accordance with the care plan;
to ensure training is up to date and sufficient for the service user’s being visited.


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