Job Tite: Senior Care Worker
Location: Icknield Court, Princes Risborough
Hours: Full time
Pay: £13.90 per hour
Are you looking for the next step in your care career? Are you interested in working for a charity that has been changing the lives of older people and those with learning disabilities and dementia for over 25 years? We’d love to hear from you!
Icknield Court care home is conveniently located close to the town centre of Princes Risborough, and is also within easy reach of High Wycombe. Our care home provides a friendly and modern living environment and offers 90 individual rooms positioned across six separate wings. With many facilities and plenty of outdoor and communal space, residents can participate in stimulating social activities and enjoy each other’s company. Personal items can be brought from home and added to rooms to provide those homely touches.
Principle tasks will include:
· Effectively lead shifts to ensure staff allocation skill mix are appropriate for homes requirements (e.g. duty allocation, breaks, leave). Ensuring the home is staffed adequately 24/7 in response to the needs of the home.
· Assist the Manager and Deputy Manager in the running of the home in an efficient and caring manner.
· Ensure all staff contribute towards the efficient running of the home, its atmosphere and that they lead by example.
· Support staff with all training and development needs. Ensuring all training programmes are implemented and monitored to a high standard.
· Fully aware of specialist support needs (e.g. diabetes, communication issues, mobility requirements, moving and handling).
· Develop person centred support plans based on risk assessment and service user preferences and undertake regular reviews of these with input from relatives, other professionals and staff colleagues.
· Update service user information in daily reports, care and health monitoring charts.
· Ability to respond to accident and incidents and evidence actions taken in line with the escalation policy.
· Assist service users with daily living tasks (e.g. personal care, mobility, nutrition and hydration and end of life care with dignity and respect) as
directed in their Support Plan.
· Provide social and emotional support to Service Users by ensuring they are included in activities of their choice and in accordance with their Support Plan.
· Ensure service users receive planned or urgent health care whenever required. Liaising with other support services e.g. District Nurses, where necessary.
· Administer medication as prescribed to service users in line with policies and procedures.
· Oversee the management of an effective system for the safe control of medication. (E.g. ordering, booking in, storage and dealing with medication errors effectively in line with policy and procedures).
· Communicate with individuals that are living, working or visiting the Care Home clearly, helpfully and respectfully.
· Participate in and arrange team meetings/staff events to ensure effective communications of business goals and objectives on a monthly basis.
· Deal with all enquiries including complaints in a calm, friendly and professional manner.
· Lead on the implementation of The Fremantle Trust’s policies and procedures, legal requirements and relevant codes of practice.
· Ensure practices are delivered in line with CQC regulations.
· Support the operation of the home by conducting the Person in Charge duties when required.
· Undertake any such duties or tasks consistent with the operational business of the Trust, the job role and hours of work as may be reasonably required.
This list of duties and responsibilities is by not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as reasonably required. This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.
Data Protection
The post holder must always respect the confidentiality of information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. This includes, if required to do so, obtain, process and/or use information held on a computer in a fair and lawful way, to hold data only for the specified registered purposes and to use or disclose data only to authorised persons or organisations as instructed.
Apply today or call our Recruitment Team on 03304601710 – we can’t wait to hear from you!
The Fremantle Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation or age.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £13.90 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Every weekend
• Weekends only

Application question(s):

• Do you currently hold a skilled worker Visa?

Work Location: In perso

Please refer the Job description for details