Care Assistant

Line management/report to: Registered Manager / Care Manager /Team Leader
You will be working in an environment which offers a high level of care & support taking
care of vulnerable adults in their own homes. You will facilitate their comfort & wellbeing
and actively promote independence.
Tasks and Responsibilities

• To visit service users in their homes, at times directed by the Team Leaders or Care

Managers

• To assist Service Users with:


• Getting up and going to bed


• Dressing and undressing


• Getting to and using the toilet


• Washing and bathing (body and hair)


• (Food preparation) Preparing and serving meals and drinks including assistance with

heating food, eating and drinking

• Assisting with personal laundry (including laundry soiled through incontinence);


• Housework including cleaning high risk areas such as kitchens and bathrooms;


• Shopping.


• Medication management


• To attend training and supervisions in line with company policy


• All other tasks deemed necessary

Overall, Purpose of the Job

• To enable and / or to assist individuals to remain in the community, supported and

maintained safely in their own homes in a person-centered way

• Encourage your service user's individuality and independence by helping him or her to

maintain relationships and familiar activities, social contact and surroundings, especially
for service users who live alone

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


• Be the face of 'Care in the Community' and acting as our representative.


• Ensure all paperwork is prepared to ensure CQC compliance and Policy & Procedures

are followed at all times, consider the following:

• Be particularly vigilant for signs of distress or anxiety in service users: any deterioration

in physical and/ or mental health, or safety of the environment, and to report these as a
matter of urgency to your Team Leader or Care Manager.

• Carry out all tasks in a way that demonstrates respect for the privacy, dignity and values

of all users, irrespective of severity or disability or personal circumstances.

• Summon appropriate assistance in an emergency.


• Support and enhance the independence of service users, as specifies in their Personal

Care (only where specified on the support plan and subject to appropriate review):

• Assist service users to access toileting facilities, emptying commodes


• and disposal of incontinence materials, using agreed health and safety


• procedures.


• Develop and maintain personal contact with the service user through talking and

listening.

• Provide support as part of a caring team, liaising with informal carers, other agencies or

professionals where necessary.

• Collaborate with other agencies


• Assist the management to maintain good relationships with other personnel involved in

the care of the service user i.e. Community Nurses, social workers, G. P's etc. as part of
a caring team.

• Maintain accurate and legible records.


• Maintain confidentiality at all times.


• Advise service users of the complaint's procedure (where appropriate).


• Participate in all training, mandatory courses and study days as directed by your line

management.

• Comply with legal requirements relating to care standards, safeguarding and health,

safety and welfare, and clients' data protection.

• Participate in meetings as appropriate and attend supervisions and


• appraisals.


• Adhere to Equal Opportunities and Anti Discriminatory Policies and Procedures in

relation to in relation to both service provision and conduct with colleagues.