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Exciting Opportunity for an Apprentice at Marmora Care Home
We have an exciting opportunity for a young individual to join our friendly and innovative team at Marmora Care Home. As an apprentice, you will be fully supported in your role to assist residents with all parts of their daily living, nutrition, mobility, and activities.
Core Responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the apprentice. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- Assist residents in all aspects of their care needs (i.e. physical, spiritual, emotional, etc.). This will include carrying out the resident's personal care, assisting during trips in the community, and with continence care
- Ensure that the home is kept clean, safe, and well-maintained. This will include making residents' beds, laundering clothes, and cleaning and maintaining equipment in the home
- Assist residents with their nutritional and hydration preferences and requirements. This will include food and drink preparation, assisting and monitoring residents during meal times, washing up, and carrying out regular tea trollies throughout the day
- Answer the call bell system and provide assistance as required, and answer the telephone and doorbell accordingly, responding to any queries as required
- Complete all necessary documentation (i.e. food and fluid charts, daily records, and behaviour charts)
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Working Conditions
Marmora Care Home is a very busy home and there will be times throughout the day where you may be standing for long periods of time.
Due to specialising in Dementia care, residents living at Marmora will sometimes experience behaviours that may be challenging to others. The successful candidate will be fully trained and supported with effective management of this, but this may be daunting in the first instance for someone that has not had any experience of these types of behaviours before.
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Marmora Care Home is also a palliative care home and supports individuals at the end of their lives. Staff have full training on this, but some can find this initially quite overwhelming and upsetting. Ongoing emotional support is provided to all staff members employed at Marmora Care Home.
Career Growth
As the apprentice becomes more confident and knowledgeable within their role, they will be expected to work weekend shifts and occasionally change their normal shift patterns in order to cover staff absences and in order to support the service where required.
About Marmora Care Home
Marmora Care Home is a small, friendly residential home specialising in supporting people with Dementia. The service employs between 30-35 staff, of which many of these are long-serving staff members, making it an ideal environment for someone new to care to venture into the care world.
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