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Start a career in care with an award-winning, CQC-rated Good home care provider
You will support older and disabled people to live well in their own homes while working towards a Level 2 or Level 3 care qualification. Enjoy the Real Living Wage, fully paid training, and a clear path to senior and supervisory roles.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
You will join a small team of care assistants and visit clients in their own homes across Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Working alongside an experienced care worker at first, then more independently, a typical week will include:
- Helping clients with personal care; washing, dressing, continence care, and getting up or going to bed
- Prompting and administering medication and recording it accurately on our care app
- Preparing meals and drinks and helping with light household tasks
- Supporting clients to stay mobile, using hoists and other equipment safely where needed
- Writing clear visit notes on our electronic care planning system and reporting any concerns or changes
- Chatting with clients and their families and helping them stay involved in their community
- Following care plans, risk assessments, and safeguarding procedures
- Attending team meetings, supervisions, and training sessions at our Filwood office
Level 2 (Adult Care Worker) is for people new to care. Level 3 (Lead Adult Care Worker) is for applicants with some care experience who are ready to take on more responsibility, such as mentoring new starters and leading care plan reviews.
Where you'll work
Office Unit 2 Filwood Green Business Park
1 Filwood Park Lane
Bristol
BS4 1ET
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE
Training course
Lead adult care worker (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Take the initiative when working outside normal duties and responsibilities
- Recognise and access help when not confident or skilled in any aspect of the role that they are undertaking
- Implement/facilitate the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory and physical impairments
- Contribute to the development and ongoing review of care/support plans for the individuals they support
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to exercise choice on how they are supported
- Encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure that individuals know what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Lead and support colleagues to understand how to establish informed consent when providing care and support
- Guide, mentor and contribute to the development of colleagues in the execution of their duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrate dignity in their working role with individuals they support, their families, carers and other professionals
- Support others to understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in social care
- Exhibit empathy for individuals they support, i.e. understanding and compassion
- Exhibit courage in supporting individuals in ways that may challenge their own cultural and belief systems
- Demonstrate and promote to other workers excellent communication skills including confirmation of understanding to individuals, their families, carers and professionals
- Use and facilitate methods of communication preferred by the individual they support according to the individual’s language, cultural and sensory needs, wishes and preferences
- Take the initiative and reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate and ensure that records and reports are written clearly and concisely
- Lead and support others to keep information safe, preserve confidentiality in accordance with agreed ways of working
- Support others, to recognise and respond to potential signs of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to concerns of abuse
- Lead and support others to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and duty of care
- Recognise, report, respond to and record unsafe practices and encourage others to do so
- Lead and mentor others where appropriate to promote the wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Demonstrate the management of the reduction of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Promote healthy eating and wellbeing by supporting individuals to have access to fluids, food and nutrition
- Carry out fire safety procedures and manage others to do so
- Develop risk assessments and use in a person centred way to support individuals safely including moving and assisting people and objects
- Manage, monitor, report and respond to changes in the health and wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Take the initiative to identify and form professional relationships with other people and organisations
- Demonstrate, manage and support self and others to work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Take the initiative to evaluate and improve own skills and knowledge through reflective practice, supervision, feedback and learning opportunities
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
- Carry out research relevant to individuals’ support needs and share with others
- Demonstrate where necessary mentoring and supervision to others in the workplace
- Demonstrate good team/partnership working skills
- Demonstrate their contribution to robust recruitment and induction processes
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City of Bristol College delivers training mainly in the workplace, with visits from a college assessor, plus online learning and any college attendance the college requires. Off-the-job training of at least 6 hours a week is built into paid working hours. Caremark provides a full induction, the Care Certificate, and mandatory training (moving and handling, medication, safeguarding, first aid, infection control) at our Filwood Green Business Park office.
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Confident in using smartphone
- Good time keeping
- Full UK driving licence
- Honest and Trustworthy
Other requirements
- Uniform and ID badge are provided and must be worn on every visit
- You will work in clients’ own homes, often alone, and travel between visits in all weathers
- The role involves personal care and moving and handling (using hoists and equipment, with training)
- Shifts include early mornings, evenings and alternate weekends
- Holiday entitlement is 5.6 weeks a year (pro rata)
- An enhanced DBS check and two references are required before you start
Caremark Bristol & South Gloucestershire is a family-run home care provider based at Filwood Green Business Park. Since 2016, we have supported older and disabled people to live safely and independently at home, from short daily visits to full live-in care. We are rated Good by the CQC (Outstanding for Responsive), have won Caremark Regional Franchise of the Year, and hold a 9.8 rating on homecare.co.uk.
http://www.caremark.co.uk/bristol (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Free uniform, PPE and enhanced DBS check
- Paid induction, Care Certificate and all mandatory training
- Mileage allowance for travel between visits
- 28 days’ holiday a year (pro rata) including bank holidays
- Workplace pension
- Care Worker of the Month recognition scheme
- Regular supervision and a named mentor
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
A permanent care assistant post on completing the apprenticeship, with progression to Senior Care Assistant, Field Care Supervisor and Care Coordinator roles. Level 2 apprentices can progress to the Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker apprenticeship, and Level 3 apprentices to Level 5 Leader in Adult Care. Several of our supervisors started as care assistants.
The contact for this apprenticeship is: CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000052811.
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