Personal Care Assistant

3 weeks ago

Clydebank, United Kingdom Alltogether Care Services Full time

**Position: Care Worker**

**Salary: £11 per hour**

**COMPANY INFORMATION**

Alltogether Care Services provide Health and Social Care for Adults within West and East Dunbartonshire. We are committed to providing the best standard of care and have been awarded excellent grades from the Care Inspectorate.

**JOB DETAILS**

Set 2 week rolling rotas so you always know your working pattern. These positions are either Full or Part Time.
- Week 1 - 4 days on; 3 days off
- Week 2 - 3 days on; 4 days off
- Full Time - working split double shifts between the hours of 7:00am to 10:30pm with appropriate gaps/rest breaks

**Function**:Field Based

**Location**:Various

**Reports To**:Care Manager/Supervisor

**Required**:PVG/SSSC Registration

**RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITY**

The care worker is expected and authorised to:

- Portray a professional image at all times;
- Provide care support services of the highest quality to named service users in line with each individual’s service plan;
- Encourage and assist service users to achieve optimum independence;
- Respond to service users’ personal and social needs as well as their practical ones;
- Support service users to maintain a healthy, safe living environment, with due regard for their personal preferences and lifestyle;
- Support service users to remain well nourished and hydrated;
- Support service users to maintain their personal appearance and self-esteem;
- Support service users to be as physically comfortable as possible;
- Support service users to maintain social relationships and to alleviate isolation;
- Monitor service users’ condition and circumstances and to act appropriately when these change;
- Have due regard for the health and safety of themselves and others;
- Maintain accurate, appropriate and up-to-date records of services delivered;
- Practice and promote effective, timely communication both within and outside the company;
- Deliver support in a manner which is sensitive to the service user’s culture, disability, race, age, sexuality, marital or civil partnership status, transgender status or religion/belief;
- Engage and work closely with unpaid carers for the benefit of the service user;
- Promote anti-discriminatory practice;
- Protect the confidentiality of service users and of the business;
- Promote the dignity and privacy of service users;
- Act promptly and appropriately to protect service users from neglect or abuse;
- Participate in staff development (including supervision), training and performance appraisals as required;
- Promote and fulfil the company’s service aims as defined in the company’s Statement of Purpose;
- Comply with company policies and procedures as appropriate;
**TYPICAL DUTIES**

The duties of the care worker may be many and varied, but will typically be of the kinds described below.

**Personal Care**

Personal care, which may include intimate care, may include (but it not necessarily limited to) the following:

- Washing the body (including intimate areas);
- Washing the hands and face;
- Bathing;
- Washing and styling the hair;
- Shaving;
- Brushing the teeth;
- Caring for dentures;
- Cleaning of and assistance with glasses or contact lenses;
- Skin care;
- Assisting in or out of bed;
- Assisting to dress or undress;
- Assisting to prepare meals;
- Support to eat or drink;
- Assisting to use the toilet or a commode;
- Assisting to management continence;
**Specialist Support**
- People with learning disabilities;
- People with dementia;
- People with physical disabilities;
- Disabled parents;
- People who are terminally ill or at the end of life;
**Other**

Care workers may be asked to carry out any other duties that may reasonably be required by management.

**Personal Care Cont..**
- Assisting to use the toilet or a commode;
- Assisting to management continence;
- Assisting in moving from one position to another;
- Assisting to use aids to daily living and rehabilitation;
- Support with exercise (including rehabilitation exercises);
- Use and care of hearing aids;
- Use and care of prosthetics, calipers etc.
- Night sitting;
- Day sitting. Personal care may be delivered at any time of the night or day.

**Health-Related Tasks**

With appropriate supervision and training from a healthcare professional, care workers may be required to support with health-related tasks, which might include:

- Administration of medicines (and appropriate recording and reporting thereof);
- Catheter care;
- Stoma care;
- Bowel care;
- Use of eye drops;
- Application of ointments; Health-related tasks may be required at any time of the night or day.

**Practical Support**

Practical support covers a broad range of tasks other than personal care and includes (but is not necessarily limited to):

- Washing up;
- Managing food and household stocks (e.g. rotating food in fridge);
- Domestic cleaning (including vacuuming, dusting, polishing, cleaning bathrooms, kitchens etc.);
- Making and changing beds;
- Clearing out refus

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