Senior Adult Care Worker Apprentice

Start your care leadership journey with ARMSCARE. As a Lead Adult Care Worker apprentice, you’ll build advanced care skills, support others in delivering person‑centred care and gain the confidence to take on greater responsibility. A great next step for anyone ready to grow and make a real impact.

Requirements

• Some experience required
• Some previous experience in care for this level 3
• Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
• Be a UK resident or living in the UK or EU for the last three years for apprenticeship eligibility
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Team working
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience
• Compassionate
• Willing to learn

Responsibilities

• Learn how to develop, review and adapt person‑centred care plans, using your growing knowledge to support high‑quality care
• Build advanced skills in monitoring vital signs such as blood pressure and heart rate, understanding how to record and report findings accurately
• Gain confidence completing medication records and supporting safe medication practices in line with organisational procedures
• Plan, lead and evaluate meaningful activities that promote residents’ wellbeing, independence and social engagement
• Develop communication skills by updating families on their relative’s progress in a supportive and professional way
• Learn to supervise care workers, offering guidance, role‑modelling best practice and helping new starters settle into their roles
• Be trained to provide emergency cover when required, following agreed ways of working and escalating concerns appropriately
• Take part in multidisciplinary team meetings, learning how care is coordinated with healthcare professionals and service managers
• 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