Healthcare Assistant Job Wolverhampton area,England UK,Healthcare

To provide personal care, home care and/or domestic duties to individuals in their own homes working to personalised and re-ablement care delivery programme

GENERAL REQUIRMENT

To have a genuine interest in caring for and working with people
To have good communication skills
Ability to adapt to varying working situations

RESPONSIBLE TO

Home Care Co-Ordinator / On-Call Co-Ordinator

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To be reliable and committed to providing a high-quality care service to individuals in their own homes
To be available by phone/mobile phone, and to respond to office messages or texts, on your allocated working days to ensure contact with care co-ordinators / on-call about short notice rota changes and service user information
To be available at agreed times and to be flexible enough to respond to need at short notice and in varying geographical areas (as reasonable) when required to cover service user visits
To confirm with area care co-ordinator on receipt of your rota and that the details are correct
Recognise the team role in the provision of care and support and to attend carer discussion meetings.
To ensure that when visiting service users that you follow the procedures, guidelines and best practice as laid out in the Employee Handbook provided at Induction
To provide care or support to service users as detailed in their individual care plan
To attend service user review meetings as required
To prompt and, where appropriately trained, to administer prescribed medication as detailed in care plan
Maintain communication books in service users home, completing details of care provided and date/times of service
To ensure that personal protective equipment, gloves and aprons are worn at all times during service user care visits
To communicate with care co-ordinators, on-call or care services manager any issues or concerns that you may have for a service user’s well being
To communicate with care co-ordinators, on-call or care services manager if there is no care plan or communications book in a service user’s home
To communicate with care co-ordinators, on-call or care services manager any issues that a service user, their family or representative may raise
To attend and participate in regular training, development, supervision and appraisal sessions as required