Domiciliary Care Assistant

For over 10 years, Hutchinson at Home has been successfully providing compassionate care in our local community. As a local, family-run company, we have gained an excellent reputation for delivering outstanding care, designed to enhance your quality of life while ensuring your safety and wellbeing.

We are passionate about our values: caring, integrity, diversity and inclusion, safety and wellbeing, and community partnerships. Our focus is always on delivering exceptional care to the elderly within the community in which we live.

We are a diverse team of compassionate and skilled carers who strive to build trust and provide care tailored to meet your unique needs and promote your wellbeing all in the comfort of your own home.

Our services extend beyond traditional care, encompassing not only physical assistance but also emotional support and companionship. We understand that a sense of belonging and connection is essential for overall well-being, and our caregivers are not just trained professionals but also friendly faces you can rely on.

This role will be based in the Antrim Area.

Job Purpose

• To enable and /or assist individuals to remain in the community, to be supported and maintained safely in their own homes and thereby enhance the quality of life.

• Encouraging your service user’s individuality and independence.

• Helping your service user to maintain relationships with neighbours, the neighbourhood and familiar activities and surrounding, providing social contact, especially for service user’s who live alone.

• Assisting other care workers and professionals to provide care for your service user.

• Being the face of Hutchinson at Home and acting as our representative.

Principle responsibilities:

• To visit nominated Service Users, at times directed by the management.

• To be particularly vigilant for signs of distress or anxiety in Service Users; and deterioration in physical and/or mental health, or safety of the environment, and to report these as a matter of urgency to the office or oncall if outside of hours.

• Office  ext 6001/6002

• Oncall

• To carry out tasks in a way that demonstrates respect for the privacy, dignity and values of all users, irrespective of severity or disability or personal circumstances.

• To summon appropriate assistance in an emergency. All actions should sustain, support and enhance the independence of the Service User’s as specified in their care plan.

Personal Care: (only where it is specified on the care plan and subject to appropriate review.

• Assist Service user’s in/out of bed, chairs, etc, using agreed procedures. Assist Service users in turning to relieve pressure areas.

• Assist Service User’s in (un )dressing, care of aids and personal equipment ( hearing aids, glasses, dentures, prosthesis etc.)

• Assist Service Users in all aspects of personal hygiene i.e. washing, shaving, showering etc.

• Assist Service Users in feeding.

• Assist Service Users to access toilet facilities, empting commodes and disposal of incontinence materials, using agreed health and safety / infection control procedures.

• Providing a day sitting service to Service User’s.

• Managing medication, when this is approved and according to directions in the care plan.

• Encourage Service user’s to maximise their own abilities and skills.

Domestic:

• Where directed, maintain cleanliness of service user’s home , to meet with health and safety requirements.

• Tidy up rooms, make up beds and wash dishes.

• Operate other sources of heating /warmth. Where appropriate home facilities are available, launder and dry clothes/bed linen.

• Undertake essential shopping if requested. Always provide a signed receipt.

• Where directed prepare or reheat meals provided and /or demonstrate to Service User.

Social:

• Actively…