Health Care Assistant - Days & Nights Stoke-on-Trent, England

Ocearns Care Services Ltd

Full Time Stoke-on-Trent, England 10.75 GBP HOURLY Today

Job description

The role of a Domiciliary Care Worker is to work without direct supervision in the home of the service user providing care and support including personal, social and domestic support whilst adhering to the service user’s individual care and support plan.

The aim of the position is to enable service users to remain safely in their own home with as much independence as possible. Alongside providing care and support in a professional, discreet and caring manner, always ensuring the service user’s right to privacy and dignity is maintained.

To know how, and where to access Company policies and procedures and relevant documentation.
To ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times, in keeping with the data protection act (DPA) 1998 – ensuring that a service user’s personal details are not disclosed to any unauthorised person and all records are maintained within the DPA 1998 requirements.
To ensure that all service users understand the care and treatment choices that is available to them.
To know the arrangements in place for obtaining and acting in accordance with the consent of the service users.
To positively promote the service user’s right to choice and independence whilst ensuring that they are treated with the utmost respect, privacy and dignity at all times.
To be aware of local and national services and sources of support so that information can be provided to service users upon request.
To promote effective communication and relationships with service users and work colleagues and to be aware of communication differences and adopt an approach that minimises the effect of such differences.
To maintain records (e.g. home file records) ensuring these are wholly accurate, up-to-date and completed in a timely manner.
To attend any meetings in order to contribute to the effectiveness of support delivery.
To undertake any training required in order to perform the role more effectively, acknowledging any deficits in knowledge or practice, identifying training needs and formulating training plans with the direction of Managers.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract, Zero hours contract

Salary: £10.75 per hour

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