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Role Overview
The role of the Social Care Worker is to support adults with learning disabilities and/or mental health disorders in their day-to-day life, ensuring the people we work with are safe, happy and lead fulfilling lives.
Responsibilities
As a Social Care Worker Apprentice, you will be working to support adults with learning disabilities and/or mental health disorders in their day-to-day life. Your roles and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Providing physical care and support to our residents in accordance with each resident's care plan, respecting their dignity and preferences
- Carrying out personal care including bathing, toileting, dressing and help with feeding
- Administering medication in line with the training received and following the company medicines policy
- Assisting and getting involved in the residents' daily activities, hobbies or outgoings
- Keeping in line with all company's policies and procedures and values
- Getting to know the people we support and support them to live a safe, happy and fulfilling life
- Developing an open, honest and considerate working relationship with residents
- Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support
- Keeping accurate written records, ensuring information is shared appropriately with other staff members whilst maintaining confidentiality and data protection requirements in line with CHOICE CARE policies
- Completing, attending and keeping up to date with all necessary training as required
- Working as part of a team that strives to support and lift residents and each other
- Ensuring that people we support, and their families are treated with respect, dignity and equality
Benefits
You will also be entitled to some fantastic benefits such as:
- Training and development
- Wagestream - access to stream up to 30% of your earnings ahead of payd
- Holiday entitlement starting at 20 days, plus 8 bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday
- Monthly prize draw
- Refer a friend and earn up to £500
- Sick pay
- Blue light card eligibility
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Apprenticeship Details
At Choice Care Group, as a Social Care Worker Apprentice, you will be working towards the Adult Care Worker Level 2 apprenticeship, over the duration of 15-months, alongside your daily roles and responsibilities.
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Adult Care Worker (Level 2)
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.
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