Care Assistant Hafod Mawddach

Job title:
Care Assistant Hafod Mawddach (34.5 hrs)

Directorate:
Adults, Health and Well-being

Service:
Provider Services

Closing date:
09/03/2023 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 34.5 Hour

Salary:
£19,405 - £19,757 a year

Pay Scale:
GS2

Location(s):
Cartref Hafod Mawddach, Abermaw

**Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this [**Information Pack**]**

(This is an advertisement for the post of Care Assistant at Residential Home Hafod Mawddach, Barmouth, within the Adult Health and Wellbeing. Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.)

**If you would like support to apply, Gwaith Gwynedd is available to help Gwynedd residents get into work**
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**Personal attributes**:
**Essential**:
To be committed and sensitive with the ability to work in a manner which shows respect for the individual’s rights at all times.

To be able to work as part of a team

**Desirable**:
**Qualifications and relevant training**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
N.V.Q in Care

Training in Health and Safety e.g. moving and handling or first aid

**Relevant experience**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
Experience of caring or involvement with the elderly

Experience of domestic work

**Skills and specialist knowledge**:
**Essential**:
Good interpersonal skills

Good communications skills

Understanding the needs of the elderly

**Desirable**:
**Language requirements**:
**Essential**:
**Listening and Speaking - Intermediate Level**:
**Reading and Understanding - Intermediate Level**:
Understand everyday correspondence on familiar issues at work.Understand longer reports in Clear Welsh and be able to pick up the main points. (help may be required with the vocabulary).

**Writing - Intermediate Level**:
**Purpose of the post**:

- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- To ensure that the physical and emotional welfare of the users are met by operating individual User Plans. To ensure that a comfortable and clean environment is maintained in the home. This will all be done by following the Council’s guidelines and policies

**Responsibility for functions**:

- To respect and use all equipment and apparatus in the home appropriately. To notify the manager or the person with responsibility for the home at the time as soon as possible of any deficiencies in any equipment, or utilities (water, electricity, gas etc.). To ensure appropriate management of user’s property e.g. medicine and cash.

**Main duties**:

- To ensure that the dignity and independence of the service users are respected through good care practices and in accordance with the National Minimum Standards for Care Homes for Older People.
- To be sensitive to the need to respect the rights of individuals at all times.
- To maintain confidentiality on all aspects of the home’s activities.
- To be part of the process to plan, prepare, implement and review the individual user’s plan.
- To act as a key worker for a specified number of service users and attend review meetings and case conferences of those users and contributing written and oral reports.
- To undertake cleaning and laundry duties.
- To prepare meals and drinks as required and serve the meals.
- To undertake the task of receiving and distributing medicine in accordance with the Council’s policy.
- To attend training courses and NVQ Level 2 particularly to ensure a consistent awareness of care issues.
- To register with the Care Council in accordance with national guidelines.
- Responsibility for self-development.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
- Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
- Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
- Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
- Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
- Responsibility to report any worry or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused

**Special circumstances**:

- The need to work unsociable hours