Care Practitioner

**Reporting to**:Assistant Service Manager
- **Salary/Hourly rate**:£11 per hour plus mileage
- **Contract**:Permanent
- **Location**:Alness, Dingwall, Invergordon, Tain
- **Hours**:Full-time/Part-time

Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference to the lives of vulnerable people in your local community?

Can you see yourself working for an award winning employee-owned care company?

We currently have vacancies for Care Practitioners across all areas offering contracted hours on a Full or Part time basis with the following shift times:

- Alness - 8.30am - 4pm and 2:45pm to 10pm
- Dingwall - 7.30am - 2pm
- Invergordon - 8am - 2pm and 4pm - 10pm
- Tain - 7.30am - 2pm and 4pm - 10pm

**About the Role**:
Our Care Practitioners work in local communities providing person centred care, enabling, maintaining and looking after the general wellbeing of vulnerable people within their own homes, always respecting the human rights of the people you work with and behaving in a professional manner.

Duties can include meal preparation, medication administration, personal care (washing, bathing, personal hygiene, dressing, shaving, toileting, continence care), light cleaning, laundry, shopping and other household duties as required, whilst always promoting independence where possible and maintaining dignity at all times.

**Benefits of Working for Us**:

- 6.2 Weeks Annual Leave per year
- Rates of pay from £11.00 per hour plus mileage (where applicable)
- Full Training Provided
- Company Sick Pay Scheme
- 24hour access to our Employee Assistance Program
- Uniform/PPE provided
- Employee Owned
- Profit Share Payments
- Support to gain SVQ qualifications

**About You**:
If you don’t have experience, its no problem, we will give you all the training you need to carry out the role of a Care Practitioner. All you need is the right attitude with a willingness to learn. You need to be caring, compassionate and committed to delivering person centred care and support to the people we provide a service to. A smartphone is also required.

**About HHC**:
Highland Home Carers (HHC) was founded in 1994. We are a vibrant and forward-looking organisation. We have grown to become one of the major independent providers of home care and support services in Scotland. We currently employ over 350 staff and have a financial turnover of around £8 million. Our company has been owned by our employees since 2004. The business is governed and led by a Board of Directors, made up of four executive directors and three elected employee directors. We are a private limited company, with a strong commercial focus.

We provide a range of services for older and vulnerable adults in Inverness and across the Highlands:

- Care at Home
- Support Work
- Housing Support
- Supported Living Services

As a Care Practitioner you will provide person centred care, which includes the delivery of personal care, enabling, maintaining and looking after the general wellbeing of vulnerable people in our communities, always respecting the human rights of the people you work with and behaving in a professional manner.

**Main Duties**:

- Work in accordance with Care/Personal Plans through ongoing discussion with, and under direction of the Assistant Service Manager and a variety of professional staff, and to assist with rehabilitative programs and promote independence by enabling, maintaining, improving and maximising the individual’s quality of living.
- Work at part of the wider team ensuring that you communicate regularly and as necessary with colleagues.
- Assist/enable people we support with personal activities such as washing, bathing, personal hygiene, taking medication, dressing, shaving, toileting, continence care and meal preparation ensuring their dignity is respected at all times.
- Assist/enable people we support to acquire mobility skills and transferring safely e.g. from bed to chair, always following moving and handling protocols /risk assessments.
- Where assessed, assist/enable people we support with cleaning, laundry, shopping and other household duties as required promoting their independence where possible.
- Using discretion, prompt and support where a person we support is physically able to carry out tasks but due to cognitive, mental health or behavioural issues is unwilling or unable to carry out these tasks.
- Assist/enable people we support to comply with their prescribed medication and to maintain records as required.
- Under the direction of professional staff and following required training, assist people we support with the administration of medication and areas of catheter care, stoma care, simple foot care, eating and swallowing to ensure safe oral intake and PEG feeding, in line with policies and guidelines.
- Observe, record and report any factors that may present risk or deterioration in the functioning of the people we support.
- Ensure all records of care/support are written factually, legibly, and signed.
- Work