Care Worker
Job description
- Assisting the patient with bathing, grooming and getting dressed
- Handling household tasks like grocery shopping and laundry
- Preparing and serving meals at the appropriate time
- Administering oral and topical medication under the supervision of medical personnel
- Providing mental and emotional support
- Making recommendations to family members and healthcare personnel on the plan of care
- Organising suitable recreational activities for the patient
- Collaborating with other health care and social care professionals to provide the best possible care
- Providing quality support to service users in promoting their choice and independence
Engage with service users and listening to their issues and concerns
Support with meal preparation, household chores, administrating medication, managing finances, assessing community facilities, going shopping, meeting friends, visiting other health care professionals, finding jobs, providing emotional support, personal care, health checks.
Support them to pursue hobbies and interests.
Support with learning of new skills or gaining voluntary services.
Support with social life skills, such as budgeting and paying bills.
Support with accessing community facilities and included in community groups.
Understanding servicer users’ communication needs and adapting your communication to each individual, e.g., sounds, tones, body language.
Working with other professionals, such as doctors, nurses, chiropodist, therapists etc to ensure consistency of support.
Analyzing service users’ needs and drawing up a focused support plan.
Becoming companion to service users and uncovering shared interests, such as hobbies and outings.
Promoting an environment that encourages service users to feel safe and comfortable, thereby meeting their social, emotional and intellectual needs.
Monitoring the service user’s health state.
Assisting other professional in their clinical duties.
Maintaining service users’ personal hygiene and wellbeing.
Ensure that service users are properly fed with appropriate diet and proper hydration.
Communicate and support service users with their relatives, family visits, family functions etc.
Maintaining accurate records and reports.
Support and encouraging staff and colleagues’ in carrying out their duties and responsibility.
Skills
- An interest in helping other people, regardless of their condition.
- The ability to communicate clearly and sensitively when talking to people and their families.
- Good listening skills.
- Great problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt and act accordingly to situations.
- Good time management skills to be able to support the needs of multiple people.
- The ability to keep up with changing standards and codes of conduct in the social care sector.
- The ability to work both alone and as part of a team.
- A high level of patience and emotional resilience.
- Being empathetic towards everyone.
- The ability to make good, positive relationships with people and their families.
- The ability to communicate with other healthcare professionals.
- Great verbal and written communication skills.
- A non-judgemental attitude regardless of a person’s needs.
- The ability to remain calm under pressure and when dealing with challenging situations.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 40 per week
Salary: £10.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- UK visa sponsorship
Day range:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends only
Shift:
- 12 hour shift
- Night shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- kent: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Care Worker 28032023
