Dementia Care Assistant (Weekend Shifts)

East Riding of Yorkshire Council; Bridlington; Hybrid; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Job summary

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is recruiting a Support Worker to assist a female client in Bridlington who has dementia. The role covers meal preparation, personal care, and domestic tasks across the client’s home and a nearby home.

You will help with dressing, hygiene, laundry and cleaning, and you’ll encourage social interaction and emotional support. The post requires a car and comfort with animals, as the client has a cat.

Qualifications

• Be motivated, proactive and able to work on their own initiative.
• Be patient, caring and understanding.
• Have good communication skills (clear and effective communication).
• Be able to build a positive relationship with the individual to both encourage and support them.
• Have previous experience caring for an individual with dementia.
• Must have use of own car.
• Be comfortable with animals to assist with the individual's 1 cat.

Responsibilities

• Meal preparation (breakfast and evening meal) and domestic tasks around such as laundry, cleaning the home and with cat litter maintenance and hygiene.
• Full personal care (help with dressing and appropriate dressing for the weather, personal hygiene, washing body, oral health)
• Encouraging social interaction and inclusion and providing emotional support.
• Female workers only.
• The role will work across both lady’s home and lady’s good friends home across the road.

Skills

Patience

Proactive

Communication

Empathy

Dementia care

Car owner

Animal-friendly

Job description

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is recruiting a Support Worker to assist a female client in Bridlington who has dementia. The role covers meal preparation, personal care, and domestic tasks across the client’s home and a nearby home.

You will help with dressing, hygiene, laundry and cleaning, and you’ll encourage social interaction and emotional support. The post requires a car and comfort with animals, as the client has a cat.