Home Care Worker

Home Care Worker: Weekdays and weekend

Location : This is domiciliary work within Birmingham region.

We are looking for individuals with the passion for care service. The role of care worker has many aspects. It is not an exhaustive list of the tasks involved, they will vary from one service user to another, but instead it is intended to be a guide to the type of work involved.

Job Description

The role of the care worker is to perform duties and tasks to facilitate our Service users to live at home in a safe secure and comfortable way.

Duties

To do this successfully the care worker must be aware of the needs and requirements of the service user and must communicate successfully not only with the Service user s but also with the other stakeholders such as family, friends, and other healthcare professionals. The Care Worker also has a responsibility to alert the supervisor (or other representatives) of any changes or causes for concerns in the Service user 's condition.

Care Workers are frequently the only people that a Service user may see daily and clearly there is a responsibility to report any relevant information back to the supervisor. It is not the role of the care worker to become involved in notifying the family, friends, or relatives of changes. This will be carried out by Just Call 4 Care Services, based on the advice received from the care worker. The Care Worker does not have the responsibility for staff. It should be clearly understood that the role requires a great deal, sometimes both in physical and emotional ways, and carries a weight of responsibility.

Anyone who does not genuinely care about the welfare of other people will not be suitable for this job.

The permanent equipment provided by Just Call 4 Care Services such as uniform identity badge and any other equipment requires to carry out the role, are the responsibility of the care worker as is making sure that consumables such as disposable gloves and aprons are available and not in short supply.

Whilst the supply and upkeep of any equipment such as wheelchairs and hoist are not the responsibility of Just Call 4 Care Services or its employees, it is expected that causes for concern with any of such items would be passed by the care worker to the supervisor.

By its nature domiciliary care requires care worker to travel from place to place. Care Workers must therefore can do this, either by public transport or by their own means.

A thorough training programme is applicable to every member of the Just Call 4 Care team. This constitutes both initial and ongoing training and is a requirement of all staff. Every member of staff will be required to apply for, and achieve, a satisfactory Criminal Records Bureau check.

Job Specification

Essential

1) Genuine care for others

2) Good communication skills

3) Ability to understand what the role entails.

4) Ability to follow instructions.

Key Competencies

1) To be able to attend all Service user calls.

2) To understand the importance of such calls

3) To be able to cope with emergency and difficult situations.

4) To be able to communicate with other people.

5) To be able to maintain high standards of care provision.

Tasks

(The role many involve some or all the following. This is not intended as a complete list and is supplied for information only. ­)

· Assist Service user s to get up, dressing and preparing them for their day.

· Washing, bathing, showering, oral care, grooming

· Toileting, assisting with use of commode, emptying commode.

· Continence managements

· Using manual handling equipment as specified

· Working with other care professionals such as District Nurses, GP's, etc

· Assisting with prescribed medication

· Assist Service user s to go to bed, including undressing and washing.

· Preparation of meal and assistance with feeding

· General household duties

· Bed making and laundry.

· Shopping and supplies management

· To keep accurate records of care visits.

· Proper documentation of task conducted.

· Visiting office for submission of timesheets, logbooks, and other paperwork

. Attending regular refresher and skill enhancement trainings.

· Attending meeting and supervisions as and when required.

Availability Requires at the moment: Monday to Friday evenings from 3pm to 9pm.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: £12.21-£12.60 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee mentoring programme
• Flexitime
• Language training provided
• Referral programme

Experience:

• domiciliary care worker: 1 year (required)

Language:

• English (required)

Licence/Certification:

• DBS on update service (required)
• Care Certificate (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Willingness to travel:

• 75% (required)

Work Location: On the road