Job Post Summary

Job description:

Care Assistants (Day shifts), Eastbourne

Salary: £13.00 per hour

Shift patterns: 7am-2pm | 2pm-10pm | Alternative weekends - Full time

As a Supported Living Care Worker, your role will be diverse to each client within our Extra Care Scheme. You will be responsible for establishing a professional client relationship, providing life-changing care and support that enables vulnerable adults of all ages to live fulfilling lives.

Our Usual Working Shifts Are

• Mornings 7am-3pm
• Evenings 3pm-10pm
• Alternative weekends

Our Benefits Include

• Rates £13.00 per hour
• Enhanced DBS check, paid for
• Paid holidays
• Workplace pension
• Company mobile phone provided
• No previous experience needed, full training provided
• Paid induction and update training
• Support and funding for recognised qualifications
• Plenty of opportunity for promotion and career progression
• PPE provided

Job Description

• Help with their activities of daily living, e.g., getting up in the morning, going to bed at nights, dressing, undressing, washing, bathing, and toilet arrangements
• Help service users overcome any mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including helping in the use and care of aids and personal equipment
• Help make a person physically comfortable by, e.g., making and changing beds, tidying rooms, doing light cleaning, laundry, and emptying commodes where used
• Help with their eating and drinking by, e.g., preparing meals, snacks, and drinks and helping users to eat and drink if they cannot or have difficulty in doing this by themselves
• Contribute to specialised care plans, e.g., for people with dementia, re-enablement, or people with continence difficulties, people with mental health needs
• Help users take their prescribed medication (as specified on their care plans)
• Supporting service users with onsite visits and social assistance.
• Contribute to the care of service users who are temporarily sick and needing, e.g., minor dressings, bed nursing, help with feeding, etc.
• Contribute as needed to a person’s end-of-life care
• Promote users’ mental and physical activity by, e.g., talking to them, helping them do things for themselves, prompting, taking them shopping, sharing with them in activities such as reading, writing, hobbies, and recreations
• Read and write reports, and take part in staff and service users’ meetings and in training activities as directed
• Comply with the service’s guidelines and policies at all times, e.g., in respect of dress code, wearing of identity badges, travelling, and security and safeguarding of service users
• Report to the service manager any significant changes in the health or circumstances of a service user
• Encourage and enable service users to remain as independent as possible
• Perform such other duties as may reasonably be required.