Health Care Assistant

Carelink Healthcare Professionals Ltd; Leicester; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Carelink Healthcare Professionals Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a care assistant to support service users with personal care in a respectful, dignity-driven way.

You will assist with dressing, washing, meals, mobility, and daily activities, while liaising with staff to implement care plans and maintain records. This role focuses on independence and compassionate support.

Training and mandatory sessions are provided; flexibility to cover shifts is expected.

Responsibilities

• Assist service users with personal care needs including undressing, washing, bathing and toileting.
• Assist with mobility and physical disabilities; support with incontinence and use of aids.
• Promote independence and dignity while encouraging engagement in activities.
• Support daily living tasks such as meal preparation, housekeeping and laundry as required.
• Record observations, assist with reports and participate in care planning and reviews.
• Report significant changes in health or circumstances to the registered manager.

Job description

Purpose of Position

To share with other staff in meeting the personal care needs of service users in a way that respects the dignity of the individual and promotes independence. Care provided by care assistants is expected to include care that would reasonably be given by members of the service user’s own family and will not include tasks that would normally be undertaken by a trained nurse. Only when trained to do so would care workers undertake any specialist tasks.

Core duties

• assists and enables service users to dress, undress, wash, use the toilet and bathe.
• serves meals to service users at table or in bed and assists with feeding if required.
• generally, assists with service users’ overall comfort and well-being.
• provides interest and activities to stimulate and engage the service user.
• helps with daily activities such as letter writing, paying bills, collecting benefits.
• undertakes light cleaning and domestic duties including meal preparation as required.
• monitors service user’s conditions by taking temperature, pulse, respiration, and weight, and contributes to record keeping.
• liaises with professional staff in carrying out care plans etc.

Principal Responsibilities

1. To assist service users with all personal care needs including, undressing, washing, bathing and toileting needs.
2. To assist service users with mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including incontinence and help in use and care of aids and personal equipment.
3. To support and care for service users who are dying.
4. To engage in the promotion of mental and physical wellbeing of service users through talking to them, taking them out, sharing with them in activities such as reading, writing, hobbies, and recreations.
5. To make and change beds and all domestic tasks within the household.
6. Where required, to assist with service user’s laundry, including using a laundrette where necessary.
7. To read and write reports and take part in staff and service users’ meetings and in training activities as directed.
8. To perform such other duties as may reasonably be required.
9. To always comply with the organisation’s policies and procedures, which includes the service users care plan and medication needs.
10. To report to the registered manager any significant changes in the health or circumstances of a service user.
11. To encourage service users to remain as independent as possible.
12. All staff are required to attend mandatory training where appropriate; this includes induction and National Vocational Qualifications or their equivalent.
13. To enable and assist service users to maintain on a day-to-day basis as much autonomy and independence as possible.
14. To support and assist service users in identifying risks and recording the support plan which minimizes and manages the identified risk
15. To agree and record with the service user their needs wishes and preferences and how these will be met.
16. Identify and support appropriately service users with capacity and those who lack capacity.
17. Record appropriately all decisions which relate to service users who lack capacity.
18. Involve and consult with service users, their families, representatives, or advocates to ensure that the service user’s views are expressed and acted upon.
19. Attend reviews of care as appropriate.
20. Update and continually improve practice by a mutually agreed method which may include attendance at staff meetings, learning support briefings and one-to-one supervision.
21. Take responsibility in conjunction with line manager for identifying further learning.
22. Be aware of requirements regarding codes of practice and relevant codes of conduct where appropriate issued by professional bodies.
23. Understand the requirement of the New Fundamental Standard Regulations 9 – 20, in relation to the Care Quality Commission Inspect regime and its importance to your workplace practice.
24. Promote good practice and be vigilant in recognising and reporting practice which does not meet the defined standard.
25. To assist and contribute to any regulatory body inspection or monitoring visit.
26. To act always, to safeguard service users from any form of abuse and to report such concerns immediately.
27. Undertake Care and Support work as required to cover emergencies.

Health and Safety

As an employee of Carelink Healthcare Professionals Ltd, the post holder has a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, to:

• Take reasonable care of the health and safety of themselves and all other persons who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work; and
• Co-operate with their employer to ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation and the Health and Safety policies and procedures, not intentionally or recklessly interfere with, or misuse, anything

Data Protection

The post holder must always respect the confidentiality of information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. This includes, if required to do so, obtain, process and/or use information held on a computer in a fair and lawful way, to hold data only for the specified registered purposes and to use or disclose data only to authorised persons or organisations as instructed. Always maintain confidentiality unless data should be shared under the company confidentiality and information sharing policy.

Additional information

A job description is not rigid but acts as a guide to the functions of the post holder. The list of duties and responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as reasonably required. This job description should be read in conjunction with the care worker guide. This job description is subject to relevant review and appropriate modification. Flexibility &

Variation Clause

From time-to-time temporary variations may be required to meet the business requirements for an employee to meet the requirements of the role. Due to a changeable service, it is necessary to build in flexibility throughout the work force to meet the needs of service users and legislation as it is introduced