Healthcare Assistant

St Joseph's Centre, Shankill; Shankill; On-site; EUR 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

St Joseph's Centre, Shankill is seeking Healthcare Assistants to join our dementia care team. The role requires flexible, compassionate individuals with experience in elderly care and a strong person-centred approach.

You will work under staff nurse supervision to meet residents’ needs and support family involvement. Applicants must hold a FETAC Level 5 Healthcare Support Certificate and have an employment permit for Ireland.

Qualifications

• Flexibility to adapt to varies shifts and tasks.
• Experience in caring for older adults and people living with dementia.
• Demonstrates person-centred values in daily care.
• High attention to detail with ability to work in a team or independently.

Responsibilities

• Meet physical and personal care needs to a high quality standard under supervision.
• Demonstrate person-centred attitudes in all interactions.
• Maintain daily care records and contribute to care planning with family input.
• Support mealtimes and social engagement for residents.
• Engage with and support volunteers, ensuring Health & Safety regulations.

Skills

Flexibility & multi-tasking

Care of elderly & dementia

Person-centred approach

Attention to detail & teamwork/initi.

Work permit for Ireland

Education

FETAC Level 5 Healthcare Support Certificate

Job description

Are you passionate about dementia care?

We are seeking to appoint Healthcare Assistants.

The successful candidates should be flexible and committed and fulfil the following criteria:

• Ability to be flexible, communicate effectively and multi-task as required.
• Current experience in the care of the elderly and people living with dementia
• Demonstrate attitudes and beliefs consistent with being person-centred
• FETAC Level 5 Healthcare Support Certificate completed.
• Ensuring full compliance with all Health & Safety regulations
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to work as part of a team or on their own initiative.
• Have an employment permit to allow you to work in Ireland.
• Have two to three years of experience in Irelands Healthcare System

Please note we will not consider, and cannot respond to, your application unless you meet ALL the criteria outlined above.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Meet an individual's physical and personal care needs to a high quality standard and with sensitivity under the guidance of the staff nurse or CNM 2.
• Demonstrate attitudes and beliefs consistent with being person centred.
• Display an awareness and evidence on a daily basis of why feelings matter most to individuals
• Demonstrate commitment to and skills in the person centred approach 'Being a Butterfly', effectively neutralising neutral care.
• Show evidence of being focused on people's feelings when providing personal care and knowing how to turn a task into positive social interaction.
• Demonstrate within the team a relaxed manner and a skill in 'going with the flow' emphasising people's individual needs and not tasks and routines whilst ensuring work requirements are met.
• Present a positive approach, not controlling language and actions towards people.
• Display a sense of spontaneity and ability to change the moment positively for people.
• Seek to remove all potential controlling elements of care cultures and to remove all features of a 'them and us' care approach.
• Effectively maintain care records that emphasise and can be measured as delivering on a daily basis a person centred approach.
• Contribute to the development of an Enriched Care Plan and assist in its implementation and evaluation in consultation with the person's family / relative as appropriate
• Contribute positively to a team approach in being person centred with one another.
• Know how to and demonstrate evidence of increasing individual's well-being and reducing ill-being
• Support families, friends and supporters of people experiencing a dementia balancing this with the promotion of a person centred approach to individuals
• Assist in the preparation and serving of food ensuring that mealtimes are a social occasion for people.
• Engage with and supporting our volunteer team.
• Comply with all Health & Safety legislation and responsibilities.
• Participate in education, training and professional development plan.

All recruitment for St Joseph's Centre, Shankill is managed exclusively through Rezoomo. We are not recruiting internationally currently.