POSITION: Community Carer

RESPONSIBLE TO: Head of Home Care

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

At The Woodlands Care Home, we are offering the opportunity to make a positive difference in someone’s life At The Woodlands Care Home, we value enthusiastic, self-motivated individuals who genuinely are passionate about caring, supporting, and helping make a difference in someone’s life. We too are passionate about providing the best possible support we can, so that our clients can continue to live fulfilled lives, maintain their independence, and remain in the comfort of their own home, for as long as they possibly can. You will be providing service out in the community and hence need the ability to drive yourself from one client to the other meaning you must have access to a car during your shift.

Principal Responsibilities:

1. To assist service users who need help with getting up in the morning, dressing, undressing, washing, bathing and the toilet.
2. To help service users with mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including incontinence; help in use and care of aids and personal equipment.
3. To care for service users who are temporarily sick and needing, for example, minor dressings, bed nursing, help with feeding, etc.
4. To help care for service users who are dying.
5. To help in the promotion of mental and physical activity of service users through talking to them, taking them out, sharing with them in activities such as reading, writing, hobbies and recreations.
6. To make and change beds; tidy rooms; do light cleaning and empty commodes.
7. To inspect, launder and mend service users’ clothing.
8. To set tables and trays; serve meals; feed service users who need help; prepare light meals and wash up; tidy and clear the dining room.
9. To answer emergency bells, the door and the telephone; greet visitors.
10. To read and write reports; take part in staff and service users’ meetings and in training activities as directed.
11. To perform such other duties as may reasonably be required.
12. To comply with the home’s guidelines and policies at all times.
13. To report to the Home Care Manager any significant changes in the health or circumstances of a service user.
14. To encourage service users to remain as independent as possible.

Person Specification — Essential Criteria:

1. Enthusiastic
2. Self-motivated individual.
3. Genuinely are passionate
4. Flexible and caring attitude.
5. Sensitive to the needs of others and to the sick or infirm.
6. An active team player but also able to work on own initiative.
7. A good communicator.