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Care Assistant duties and responsibilities

Care Assistants are often required to react to a patient’s needs, but typical duties might include:

• Assisting clients with care such as grooming, washing and maintaining personal hygiene standards
• Preparing and serving healthy, nutritious meals, taking into account any special dietary needs and personal preferences
• Identifying activities that would appeal to the patients and ensuring that they are suitably stimulated
• Preparing food and drinks for patients
• Contributing to a clean, well-organized and pleasant environment for all patients
• Performing light housekeeping duties
• Lifting, moving, positioning and transporting clients
• Providing social companionship
• Ensuring clients take their prescribed medication on time
• Assisting with physical therapy exercises
• Escorting clients to and from appointments
• Taking clients’ temperatures, pulse and weight
• Following care plans created by medical staff
• Running errands for clients or accompanying them on errands
• Reporting any changes in health or behavior

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 1 month
Part-time hours: 40 per week

Salary: £14.00-£18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability
• Weekends only

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Loyalty bonus
• Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Gosport, PO13 0EW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Reference ID: Support workers