patient care professional Chelsea, England
Look Ahead Housing and Care
Full Time
Chelsea, England
12441 - 12.04 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Job profile
The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
Job details
Job details
Job reference
REQ004857
Date posted
29/06/2023
Application closing date
28/07/2023
Location
Kensington and Chelsea
Salary
£12,441.00
Package
Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
Contractual hours
20
Basis
Part time
Job category/type
Part Time, Permanent
Domiciliary Care Worker
Job description
We’re looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Domiciliary Care Worker to join our Homelessness service in Kensington and Chelsea.
£12,441.00 per annum, working 20 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
Want to feel like you’re part of one team? You’ll feel at home here.
Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren’t token gestures - we’ve thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.
Specific details about the service and team. If individual care role – details about the person.
This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation.
What you’ll do:
Care worker will provide care to customers living within the homeless sector. The care worker will be based at Heaney Hub, Kensington and Chelsea which support both male and female customers with complex needs. This includes health, mobility, alcohol dependency, mental health and substance misuse. Care worker role is to support a customer to maintain a Standard of Living/health needs, including domestic tasks.
All of the care needs should be done in a manner which encourages customers to work towards a maximum degree of independence.
The following list gives an example of the type of duties you might undertake.
- To help customers with mobility difficulties, or any other physical difficulties, to help in the use of aids and other personal equipment
- Accompanying to appointment.
- Accompany to Shopping.
- To wash clothes and bed linen (which may include soiled laundry) when necessary.
- Assist and encourage the management of health-related conditions such as dietary and fluid intake
- Collection of prescriptions from the local pharmacy and returning unused medication
- General domestic tasks including changing beds, taking out rubbish and the general up keeping of customers rooms. This may include supporting customers to dispose of sharps safely in sharps boxes
- Respect the confidential nature of the work
- Ensure that different cultural needs are catered for sensitively
- Customers’ dignity, personal hygiene and comfort is always maintained
- To complete daily records of care provided to customers.
- To undertake any other reasonable duties specified by management
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead
About you:
- The ability to handle emergency situations
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Good interpersonal skills
- Effective verbal communication skills
- To provide feedback to the staff team
- Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour
- Exudes a warm friendly presence and open behaviour
- Prefers working as part of a group or team
- Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
- Is persistent and encouraging with excellent persuasion skills when customers are reluctant to engage
What you’ll bring:
Essential:
- Caring and compassionate towards people in need of care and support
- Ability to keep written records in clear English about the care and support given to each customer including help with medicines
- Respect for people suffering from a range of medical conditions with different backgrounds and beliefs to your own
- Commitment to non discriminatory care practice
- Understanding of the support requirements of customers with complex needs
Desirable:
- Previous experience as a care worker NVQ level 2 or equivalent
About us:
Look Ahead is a dynamic, leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. As an organisation we deliver over 110 services, providing support to around 7000 customers each year. We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.
Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.
Look Ahead Housing and Care
www.lookahead.org.uk
City of London, United Kingdom
Chris Hampson
$25 to $50 million (USD)
501 to 1000 Employees
Non-profit Organisation
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
1973
