Our client is hiring a Care Assistant to join the team.
A suitable candidate should be a motivated and multi-skilled individual that meets the requirements of the role.
DUTIES TO INCLUDE
Personal care: Assist with personal hygiene, washing assistance with using the toilet, assistance with incontinence inc. pads, commodes and catheter bags.
Support with eating and drinking: Ensuring that clients are encouraged to eat a healthy, balanced diet and the correct quantities, prepared meals look appetising and make sure the way they eat is appropriate for the client.
Assisting with shopping: This is completed at the client’s request and a finance form must be completed with a receipt.
Assist with mobility: Use of a hoist or other aides, or assistance in standing and movement. Dressing or assisting with any physical activity whereby the client needs support.
Domestic duties: Cleaning, emptying bins, washing where requested.
Record keeping: MAR chart (for medication), log book (recording each visit to communicate to the next carer), care plan updates.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
ESSENTIAL
Good Maths and English skills.
BTEC or NVQ healthcare qualification.
Interpersonal skills, including empathy and an ability to build positive relationships.
Ability to follow treatment plans.
Willingness to help clients maintain hygiene standards.
A practical solution focussed approach to problem-solving.
An understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion.
Ability to work flexibly and in a busy environment.
This website uses cookies for optimal use. In order to provide you with the best possible website experience, cookies are used for functional, analytical and shared use as well as for the display of personalized content. For an improved user experience, we recommend that you turn all options on. We use these optional cookies to improve our services. If you activate cookies, you can use our website to the full extent. 'FUNCTIONAL': The functional cookie enables us to improve the functionality of our website and to enable personalization. This cookie is used to shortlist preferred positions so that users can save the list and apply as they see fit. 'ANALYTICS': The Google Analytics cookie enables us to monitor the traffic on our website and your surfing behavior. With this information we can improve the performance of our website in order to increase the usability. 'SHARED USE': This cookie is used to share job offers or pages with other users. For more information on the individual cookies we use, please click here for further information. You can find more information about our use of data in our privacy policy
You can also use your social account to sign in. First you need to:
Accept Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy