Female Support Worker (Full Time)

Salary: £12.85 per hour (No Sponsorship)

Excellent benefits: Enhanced holiday & sick pay, free on-site parking, healthcare cash back scheme, free on-site gym, free meals on duty, excellent progression.

Overview: Our residents are at the heart of everything we do with personcentred planning we make sure that everyone remains focused on achieving their goals and to maintain their independence as much as possible.

This role is for 30 to 40 hours per week, with shifts to include every other weekend.

Job Purpose: To assist in the personal, rehabilitative and social care of residents.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• To provide the direct care provision for all aspects of the individual resident s assessed needs in line with their care plan.
• Follow all Policies and Procedures.
• Assisting individual residents, where needed, with personal care.
• Administering and storage of prescribed medication in line with legislation.
• Assisting individual residents with their mobility, where appropriate.
• Helping individual residents, where needed, to feed themselves.
• Overseeing and helping, in the serving and the preparation of meals and drinks.
• Ensuring that each resident receives a well-balanced diet.
• Communicate and convey relevant information about the residents to team members, in order that the individual plan of care may be regularly updated, and appropriate care given provided, paying attention to any changes observed in the resident s physical, medical or psychological condition.
• Reporting immediately to the senior staff in charge, any accident or untoward incident, which may occur to a resident, member of staff or visitor.
• Be aware of the steps to take in line with Safeguarding Adults at Risk Policies should an allegation of abuse be witnessed or made by you.
• To follow as appropriate the procedures of handling Medication including asking a senior member of staff to administer any drug prescribed as required which may include analgesics, laxatives and diazepam.
• To attend 1:1 supervision meeting with your line manager every six weeks.
• To follow as instructed any reasonable instruction given by your line manager, manager or senior manager as required.
• Any other reasonable tasks that may be required.
• To be conversant with and implement Company policies and procedures.

The duties and responsibilities outlined above do not represent a full list of the tasks the post holder will be expected to perform. Other tasks may be required for the proper performance of the job and any other related tasks.

Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications for this role: To be able to communicate with the General public, trustees, Professional bodies and all other parties on behalf of The Meath both written and verbal, excellent working Knowledge of Word, Excel and other operating systems.

Essential: Take Responsibility/Work well independently as well as part of a team/ Flexible, Reliable and punctual/ Willingness to attend and participate in relevant training to ensure that high operational and safety standards are maintained at all times/ High degree of confidentiality with regard to all

Desirable: Be aware of CQC requirements & hold a relevant Health and Social Care Qualification or be willing to work towards a qualification.