Apprentice Care Assistant

About the Role

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

• 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 providing 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)

Training and Development

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Course Contents

• Apply national standards, organisational policies, and procedures, codes of conduct, and ways of working that apply to own role
• Follow national legislation, policies, and guidance in adult social care settings, relating to health and safety within the scope of own role
• Consider the human rights of individuals in adult social care settings, in line with organisational policies relating to equity, diversity, and inclusion to support an open culture
• Demonstrate a duty of candour, and duty of care acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm
• Apply a person-centred, co-produced approach when developing relationships with individuals to support their health and wellbeing
• Assist with conducting risk assessments, which focus on positive risk-taking, to ensure the safety of yourself and others
• Apply the principles of positive and proactive care and support for those with lived experience to proactively avoid or reduce escalation, de-escalate, and manage conflict
• Customise information, advice, and guidance to individuals with or without capacity or their representative to make informed, independent choices and decisions
• Adapt approach to care and support for individuals with lived experience to meet their current and evolving cognitive and physical needs and conditions
• Recognise and respect how an individual's capacity determines their ability to make informed decisions about their needs
• Identify and respond to signs and symptoms of changes in the physical and mental capacity, mental health, and wellbeing of those with lived experience, and monitor, record, and report changes
• Use appropriate communication methods that are adapted to respond to the needs of individuals, stakeholders, and family members in adult social care settings, including verbal, written, non-verbal, and digital communication
• Develop personal resilience and access support to maintain wellbeing of self
• Use record-keeping systems to maintain clear and accurate records of interactions with individuals, and others ensuring security of information and data
• Apply methods of digital working and communication and new care technologies to support improvements in own work setting
• Record learning opportunities in line with organisational policies that support lifelong learning and meet the relevant standards
• Record, use feedback, and supervision to improve own practice to identify and support the development of individual goals and career opportunities
• Contribute and agree to the personal development plan demonstrating support required for new learning goals and reflection on actual practice
• Monitors safe and effective administration of medicines in accordance with national and organisational policies and the limitations of own role