Weekend Resident Support Assistant

1 week ago

Keynsham, United Kingdom St Monica Trust Full time

8 hours per week Saturday 11.00am - 7.30pm

Key Results

Summary responsibilities
- Delivery of a holistic, person-centred service to care home residents, which identifies their hospitality, housekeeping and catering needs and preferences. Collaborating with other teams to achieve this.
- Maintain a high standard of hygiene in accordance with health and safety, infection control standards, food hygiene legislation and St Monica Trust’s policies and procedures.
- Ensure room checks, communal room comfort, cleanliness, hygiene and laundry sorting.
- Meet residents’ unique needs and collaborate with colleagues across the care home teams.
- Ensure lounge areas (where applicable) are ready for use as a coffee and bar venue for residents and their visitors.

Skills and experience

Communication
- Write notes and messages - numeracy, literacy and verbal skills.
- Communicate with people with differing communication needs.
- Encourage and influence.
- Understand and follow instructions and procedures.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Mixed methods and mediums of communication.
- Thinking Style
- Analyses and evaluates given information.
- Adapts style and approach appropriate to situation or task.
- Structures tasks/activities.
- Pre-empts issues and trouble-shoots.
- Refers appropriate decisions to line manager.
- Challenge, or suggest new ways of working, to promote the efficiency of the unit or team.
- Well-being and Values
- Aware of cultural and individual differences in all interactions and service areas.
- Demonstrate interest, care and attention.
- Create a positive impression.
- Understand and respond to the needs of older people and people with dementia (including willingness and motivation to learn).
- Collaborate with residents and relatives (where appropriate), tailoring service to meet individual needs.
- Promptly respond to or refer to team leader/line manager (as appropriate to role), issues of residents or colleagues' health or well-being.
- Contribute to maintaining a safe and secure environment - reporting faults, repairs or hazards through appropriate channels.
- Working with others
- Works effectively as part of a team.
- Build relationships of trust with others (team, residents and their family & friends).
- Potential exposure to challenging, physical or emotional situations.
- Other Skills & Qualifications
- Essential
- Understanding of basic food preparation and cleaning techniques
- An understanding and appreciation of older people in a care setting and the issues that may affect them
- Knowledge of basic health and safety rules
- Knowledge of customer service principles
- Desirable
- Level 1 or 2 in Food Hygiene (or equivalent)
- Level 2 in Healthcare Cleaning (or equivalent)
- General level of education (GCSE or equivalent)
- Familiar with Microsoft 365 and video call programs such as Facetime, Zoom etc
- Working experience in a care setting
- Knowledge of safe moving and handling techniques
- Additional information
- Duties must be carried out in compliance with St Monica Trust’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
- This role profile contains the principal accountabilities relating to this post and does not describe in detail all the duties required to carry them out.

£12.20 per hour plus weekend enhancement where applicable.

Salary Ranges:
£25,376.00 - £25,376.00

Time Type:
Part time

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