Optimum Care Group
Advanced Community Care Worker | East Belfast
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Job:
Advanced Community Care Worker
Location:
East Belfast
Pay:
£14.98 per hour
Job Type:
Part-time Evenings
Role:
Permanent
Annual Leave:
5.6 weeks Pro Rata
Your Benefits:
- £500 Joining Bonus
- Excellent Pay Rate - £14.98 per hour
- 30p per mile mileage
- Enhanced Holiday Rates - up to £29.96 per hour
- Permanent Contract
- Free Uniform
- Paid Training
- Access to Employee Mental Health Support Line
- Daily support from the office team
- Career Progression Opportunities
- Company Pension
Job Description:
We are seeking to recruit an Advanced Community Care Worker to join our team to cover the East Belfast area. The successful candidate will be required to facilitate and deliver intermediate domiciliary care for clients being discharged from hospital or other intermediate care setting to their own homes.
Benefits
- £500 Joining Bonus – after 3 months in your role
- £14.98 per hour + enhanced holiday rates (Block Pay)
- Guaranteed hours (no zero-hour contract)
- 30p per mileage (paid monthly)
- Paid training
- Free uniform
- Eligible to apply for a Blue Light Discount Card
- Access to Employee Mental Health Support line
- No upfront cost for your Enhanced Access NI
- Daily support from the office team
- Company Pension
General Duties
- Adapt practice to changing needs of clients.
- Ensure that issues arising with a care plan or client condition are reported contemporaneously to key service management personnel and multi-disciplinary team.
- Adhere to company confidentiality policy.
- Complete good quality records in accordance with company standards.
- Welcome new staff, lead by example, and promote a team working culture.
- Maintain a high level of attendance at work.
- Answer calls from your co-ordinator/line manager and respond to messages immediately ensuring you have a working mobile phone at all times.
- Maintain a flexible approach to your rota which may require change at short notice.
- Follow the out-of-hours on-call procedure appropriately and participate in care worker ‘stand-by’ on an occasional and rotational basis.
- Assist On-Call in an advisory capacity as requested in regard to securing cover for shifts and any other adverse events.
- Develop professional rapport with multi-disciplinary team members involved in service user care.
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Shift Pattern
- Evening Shift: 6.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. (5 hours paid)
Essential Criteria
- 1 year of domiciliary care experience.
- Full driving licence and access to a car & car insurance in connection with business.
- Mobile phone.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
Please note: Applicants within the last 6 months need not re-apply.
A satisfactory Enhanced Access NI check will be required for this post. The Optimum Care Group of companies, as per the Access NI Code of Practice, has a policy on the secure handling, use, storage and retention of disclosure information. Copies of these documents along with the Access NI Code of Practice are available upon request by contacting the HR Department. If successful please be aware that we have a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders. Our Policy states that any existence of a criminal conviction will not necessarily lead to the withdrawal of a job offer, but the failure to fully and accurately disclose all criminal convictions will lead to the withdrawal of the offer.
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Application Form
Personal Details
- Name
- Maiden Name (if applicable)
- Home Phone Number
- Mobile Number
- Address
- Right to Work
Additional Details
- Your National Insurance Number
- Are you registered with NMC or NISCC?
- What is your NMC/NISCC number?
- What is your NMC/NISCC certificate expiry date?
- Do you have your own form of transport?
- Driving Licence No.
- Have you worked for an agency within the last 3 months?
- Which agency or agencies did you work for?
Next of Kin
- Name
- Maiden Name (if applicable)
- Address
- Contact No.
- Relationship to you
- Consent
Convictions/Investigations
- Have you ever been the subject of an Adult or Child Abuse investigation or been previously referred to the Independent Safeguarding Authority/DBS as a result of misconduct involving a child or a vulnerable adult?
- If yes, provide full details below.
- Have you ever been reported to NMC/NISCC?
- If yes, provide full details below.
- Do you have any convictions that are not “protected” as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, as amended in 2014?
- If yes, provide full details below.
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- I confirm I understand and accept offers of employment and subsequent appointment will be subject to the outlined declaration.
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- I agree to the Access NI Disclosure information.
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