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| Posted by: | Nayland Care |
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| Address: | Bridgefoot Studios Maldon Road Kelvedon CO5 9BE |
| Contact Details: | 01376 573673 |
| Date Posted | 6th May 2008 |
| Reference Code: | MSJ-NC |
| View Since Posting: | 221 |
| Salary: | Attractive rates |
| Vacancy Location: | Other Sudbury |
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| MAIN PURPOSE: To provide care and support services to service users. This role is field based, drivers would be preferred but not essential. SCOPE OF THE JOB: Responsible to the service manager. REMUNERATION: • Weekdays - £6.50 per hour/ Weekends - £8 per hour/ Bank Holidays - £13 per hour. • 4 weeks Paid Holiday, • FREE uniform • FREE induction and FULL training to NVQ level 3 in Care. LOCATIONS: Sudbury and other locations within Suffolk EXPERIENCE: No previous experience required MAIN DUTIES 1.To follow the directions and instructions laid down in the carer’s handbook and or the direction of the service manager. 2.To act at all times as a representative of the company and to support its good reputation. 3.To attend all calls at the designated times laid down in the assignments and fulfil the care in accordance with the care pan. 4.To inform your immediate supervisor/service manager when you are unable to attend calls on time or fulfil the requirements of the care plan. 5.To respect service user’s confidentiality in accordance with the policy of which you will sign a declaration on the induction day. 6.To protect the service user against all forms of abuse and to report directly to the service manager your concerns of other staff/ service user’s of being abused. 7.To pay particular attention to the rules regarding financial transactions for service users. 8.To undertake any duties that you have been trained for and avoid placing yourself or the service user’s health and safety at risk by doing so. 9.To undertake company induction, foundation and NVQ or its equivalent, as desired. 10.To act on all instructions given to you by the service manager and senior home care assistants. Except where you feel that you would be in breach of the service user’s safety. 11.To follow the prescribed complaints procedure in case of dispute and all accidents, which, no matter how minor, must be reported to the service manager. 12.To provide accurate copies of worked hours and mileages for wage claims and to have them returned back to the office for processing by the following Monday morning. 13.To communicate any change in a service user’s circumstances to the office. 14.To record your visit in the communication book and sign your entry, then ask the service user where possible to sign under your signature for conformation of the visit. 15.To further the standing of the company and ensure that you are flexible in your work practices. 16.To work the times prescribed in the care plans and be aware that the service user’s need care even at weekends and on bank holidays. 17.There is a range of tasks, which you could be required to do. These could include: assisting the service user to get up, personal care in the mornings, assisting the service user to go to bed (personal care) at night time, to assist the service user on bathing/showering, bed making, preparing food, laundry/ironing duties, cleaning rooms that the service user is using in their home, shopping, assisting the service user to use the toilet/commode, emptying commode, ect. 18.Never to act in a way which is detrimental to the service user’s best interests. Not to perform medical or clinical functions. 19.To hold yourself as a skilled qualified professional carer and represent your company. |
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