Compassionate Home Care Assistant - Flexible Shifts

Cameron Clarke Associates; Arundel; Sur place; GBP 18 000 - 20 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Paid travel time

Mileage

Local rounds with less travel

Résumé du poste

Cameron Clarke Associates is seeking Support Workers/Community Care Assistants in Bognor Regis to provide person-centred home care. Roles include full-time, part-time and bank positions with weekday, evening and weekend shifts.

You’ll assist with personal care, meals and mobility while following care plans and ensuring dignity and independence. Benefits include paid travel time, mileage and local rounds to minimise travel between customers.

Qualifications

• Kind, caring and compassionate approach.
• Reliable, honest and trustworthy.
• Respectful of customers’ dignity, choices and independence.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to read and follow care plans, risk assessments and instructions.
• Ability to maintain accurate written or electronic records.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Willingness to undertake personal and intimate care.
• Willingness to complete required training and competency assessments.
• Ability to use a smart or electronic care-recording system, with training.
• Willingness to raise concerns and report unsafe practice.
• Satisfactory Enhanced DBS check and references.

Responsabilités

• Provide personal care, including washing, dressing, continence care and oral care.
• Support customers with mobility and transfers in line with moving and handling assessments.
• Prepare meals, drinks and snacks and assist with eating and drinking where required.
• Support customers with medication in accordance with care plans and company policies.
• Complete light domestic tasks, including laundry, bed making and washing up.
• Provide companionship and encourage customers to maintain hobbies, relationships and community involvement.
• Support customers receiving palliative or end-of-life care where appropriate.
• Promote independence, dignity and choice while respecting consent and the right to refuse care.
• Respect customers’ individual backgrounds, cultures, beliefs, lifestyles and preferences.
• Recognise and report changes in customers’ health, behaviour, mobility, nutrition, hydration or general wellbeing.
• Report safeguarding concerns, accidents, incidents, medication errors and near misses promptly.
• Follow infection prevention and control procedures, including hand hygiene and the appropriate use of PPE.
• Follow care plans, risk assessments, lone-working procedures and health and safety requirements.
• Maintain professional boundaries and handle customers’ money or property only when authorised.
• Maintain accurate and timely records of care provided, tasks completed, concerns, medication and incidents.
• Record arrival and departure times accurately using the company’s electronic care system.
• Communicate effectively with customers, relatives, colleagues and other professionals, adapting communication to individual needs.
• Inform the office of delays, inability to attend visits or situations where a customer does not answer the door.
• Maintain confidentiality and raise concerns about unsafe or inappropriate practice.
• Complete required training, competency assessments, supervision, spot checks and appraisals.
• Wear appropriate uniform and identification and treat customers’ homes and belongings with respect.
• Cooperate with audits, investigations and quality assurance processes

Connaissances

Compassionate

Reliable

Good communication

Care plans follow-through

Record-keeping

Independent with teamwork

Willingness to undertake personal care

Willingness for training

Electronic care-recording system

Raise safeguarding concerns

DBS check & references

Outils

Electronic care-recording system

Description du poste

Cameron Clarke Associates is seeking Support Workers/Community Care Assistants in Bognor Regis to provide person-centred home care. Roles include full-time, part-time and bank positions with weekday, evening and weekend shifts.

You’ll assist with personal care, meals and mobility while following care plans and ensuring dignity and independence. Benefits include paid travel time, mileage and local rounds to minimise travel between customers.