Night Intermediate Care Support Worker

St. Helens MBC; St Helens; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A local authority in St Helens is seeking a Support Worker to assist in providing care for elderly individuals. This role involves supporting service users in personal care, ensuring safety throughout the night shifts, and promoting their independence. Candidates should have relevant experience in care and strong communication skills. Immediate start available. This position offers 10 hours per week with a salary of £12.18 per hour.

Qualifications

• Experience in caring for elderly and disabled people.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Understanding of rehabilitation processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care to service users.
• Conduct regular checks on service users for safety.
• Assist with maintaining health equipment.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Observation skills

Initiative

Job description

Job Category: Social Care – Unqualified

Location: Brookfield, Park Road, WA9 1HE, St. Helens MBC

Hours Per Week: 10.00

Start Date: Immediate start

Start Time: 09 : 00

End Time: 17 : 30

Salary: £12.18

Purpose of the Post

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and assist professional members of the Contact Cares service to provide integrated, multidisciplinary programmes of reablement aimed at promoting independence and helping to restore / maintain the service user’s ability to remain within the community.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To remain alert and aware throughout the night shift and undertake regular and discreet checks on the services users, ensuring that all checks and incidents are appropriately recorded in accordance with Departmental and CQC guidelines.
• To undertake regular checks on exit doors, windows, waste bins and electrical appliances in accordance with health and safety requirements, remaining mindful of fire, trip and security risks.
• To attend to the service user’s personal care needs i.e. washing, bathing, changing, toileting.
• To assist the District Nursing Services in helping service users maintain appliances such as catheter and colostomy bags.
• To undertake bed making and handling of soiled bed linen and ensuring that service users have adequate clean and serviceable clothing; and notifying the Duty Manager of the need for replacements and / or repairs.

Knowledge

• An understanding of the rehabilitation processes that enable older people to return home and continue to live as independently as possible
• Knowledge of Health and Safety issues

Skills and Abilities

• Able to demonstrate positive interpersonal skills with clients, carers and professional colleagues.
• Able to demonstrate appropriate and effective communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate an ability to work both unsupervised, using own initiative where approriate and as part of a team
• Good observation skills
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions

Experience

• Caring for elderly and disabled people in a formal of informal setting e.g. caring for family
• Working unsupervised on a day to day basis, as well as part of a team
• Liaising with other agencies