Home Care Worker (Night)(Permanent)(Part Time) - REN12301

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Renfrewshire Health & Social Care Partnership Care at Home Services provide care and support to vulnerable people living at home, within the community, which includes four extra care housing developments across the authority. We are looking for an enthusiastic, committed, flexible and highly motivated individual to join our extra care overnight service.

The extra care housing service operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Hours of work are 30 hours per week, worked from 10.15pm to 6.45am on a 4 days on/4 days off rota system. This post may require you to work across the service.

Duties include:

1. Assisting service users with all aspects of personal care including help with washing, dressing, toileting, and medication.
2. Helping with preparing breakfast and other meals when necessary.
3. Assisting service users to maintain and develop their daily living skills and improve independence.

You will be required to undertake all relevant training for the post. It is essential that you have experience of working in a care setting and delivering personal care or in an informal/personal capacity; have an awareness of a range of long-term conditions and an understanding of the needs of people who require help from care services; and be able to demonstrate within your application form that you are reliable and flexible with the ability to work as part of a team. You will also be required to demonstrate that you can communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing), including monitoring and reporting changes in the identified needs of service users, and handling sensitive information.

It is also essential that you have a calm, positive and professional attitude.

It is desirable that you have an awareness of health and safety issues that affect a service user in their own home and an ability to deal with unexpected events or emergency situations.

It is essential that you hold or have the capacity to achieve an SVQ Level 2 in Care or an equivalent qualification at level 5 (SCQF) or above. You must be registered with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) or achieve registration within 6 months of your start date.

If successful, you will be required to undertake a Disclosure Scotland check, the level of check will be determined by the duties of the post. For further information regarding the Disclosure Scotland checks, please visit www.disclosurescotland.co.uk.