Care Assistant Plas Maesincla

Reference:
24-27838

Job title:
Care Assistant Plas Maesincla

Directorate:
Adults, Health and Well-being

Service:
Provider Services

Closing date:
17/12/2024 10:00

Job type/Hours:
Permanent | 37 Hour

Salary:
£24,790 - £25,183 a year

Pay Scale:
GS3

Location(s):
Cartref Plas Maesincla, Caernarfon

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

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.

For further information about this post please contact** Susan Evans **on** 01286 672507**

Interview date to be confirmed.

Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH

Tel: 01286 679076

**CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, 17/12/2024**

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Recruitment Pack Adults, Health and Well-being Department

**Personal attributes**:
**Essential**:
Friendly, outgoing, and willing to undertake training

Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team

Sensitive, committed, honest and reliable person with the ability to work in a way that always respects the rights of the individual

Able to work as an individual and as a team member

Conscientious, creative, emotional, and level-headed person when dealing with individuals.

Positive and passionate

Non-judgemental

Able to listen and respect the ideas of others, although you may not agree

Able to use your imagination to connect emotionally with others

Appreciates the individual's ability

Able to make the best of the time when you must positively contact persons who use the service

Able to identify and support individuals to develop different skills

Can appreciate and respect the skills and personalities of others

Able to be flexible

Showing a friendly professional manner

**Desirable**:
**Qualifications and relevant training**:
**Essential**:
NVQ 2/QCF Level 2 Health and Social Care

**Desirable**:
Relevant training in the care field

Understanding of complex care needs

Opportunity to become a champion in a specialized field

**Relevant experience**:
**Essential**:
**Desirable**:
Experience of having worked/supported individuals to live their lives how they

wish

**Skills and specialist knowledge**:
**Essential**:
Possesses good interpersonal skills.

Good communication and recording skills, respectful and honest.

**Desirable**:
**Language requirements**:
**Listening and Speaking - Intermediate**:
**Reading and Understanding - Intermediate**:
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**:
**Purpose of the post**:

- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- Help individuals to live their lives as they wish to live.
- Take on the full care role in the home.
- Collaborate with other agencies, for the benefit of the individuals, including attending reviews, meetings with health, consulting with specialists.
- Administration of medicines

**Responsibility for functions**:

- Ensure appropriate use of users' property e.g., medicine and cash.
- Make appropriate use of specialist equipment to assist the individual to live his/her life as they wish to live. This includes reporting on deficiencies and following practice protocols and specialist training as required.

**Main duties**:
SUPPORT THE INDIVIDUALS WHO USE THE SERVICE

Role - full charge of home role if appropriate
- Take responsibility for the residential care home and the responsible person role.
- Lead staff with their work duties.
- Take decisions in the absence of managers, e.g., receive admissions back from hospital, lead in an emergency, respond to enquiries.
- Lead and respond to an emergency situation involving users and the building
- Identify changes in the health and well-being of individuals and respond quickly and appropriately to them.

Care Worker Duties
- Excel in building relationships with people to understand exactly what would make a difference to them in their lives and empower the voice of the individual at every opportunity.
- Be innovative and creative when giving care in a way that fully includes people, that continuously strives to include people in even the simplest of activities and enable or re-able people to take control of their own lives.
- Be a key worker for individuals attending meetings and contribute orally and in writing
- Maintain and support the procedure for administering and distributing medicines in accordance with the service policy.
- Promoting the rights of the individual and encourage them to take positive and informed risks.
- Follow an ethos that emphasises the importance of working with individuals and promoting their independe