Health Care Assistant / Care Support Worker

Job Title: Health Care Assistant

Location: Opportunities in Camborne, Carbis Bay, Callington, Truro

Salary: Competitive

Contract Type: Permanent, Full or Part Time Hours

Essential: Car driver and access to your own form of transport is essential

When you work for our Client, you don't just have a rewarding occupation; you can have a rewarding career.

With their support and award-winning training, you can realise your ambitions with clear pathways into supervisory and management roles.

Join them as a Care Assistant today and begin your journey - with amazing benefits and competitive pay at locations all over Cornwall in their care homes and providing home care - with DBS checks and uniform provided.

As a care assistant you are responsible for maintaining the consistent delivery of high quality standards of care to the company's clients; ensuring that every health care assistant on your team is focused and working towards the fulfilment of the client's emotional, physical well-being, spiritual, and diversity needs every single time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a role model and knowledge resource, providing equality of support and direction and appropriate levels of challenge to develop the skills, knowledge and experience of your team members.
• Consistently demonstrate high standards of care practice ensuring that you objectively monitor the standards of care practice in your team.
• To participate as a valued member of the person's support team; ensuring that you provide person centred detailed handovers, recording observations of all the client's welfare needs, any changes or client's requests for changes.
• You are responsible to act with both personal and professional integrity and respect for others at all times, when liaising with the person's family and external support agencies and when working as part of the professional care and support team.
• As a care leader you are responsible for proactively managing to ensure that the shift has all the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to provide the optimum level of care; this includes covering holidays, sickness absence and training absence.
• To accurately and consistently administer, record, store and order medication for the person in your as appropriate, complying with the Company's Medication Policy and Procedure guidelines and the Care Quality Commission regulatory guidance. Reporting immediately and factually any non-compliance or anomalies to the shift leader and recording in writing in the appropriate register.
• You are responsible for ensuring that you follow, regularly keep up-to-date and understand the person's plan of care and risk assessments.
• Responsible to record and report to the shift leader any safeguard or significant issues accurately, immediately and in compliance with the Company's reporting policy and procedure.
• Responsible to participate in the development of all aspects of a person's care plan and the risk assessment process; to do this in-line with Company policies and procedures and statutory requirements in place at the time.
• You are responsible to ensure that your professional practice and your work is within and kept up-to-date with the principles laid out in The Health and Safety at Work guidance, Care Quality Commission regulatory guidance and Equality Act 2010 regulations.

Key Requirements:

• Driver's License and access to a car
• Offers of employment will be subject to a DBS check

Amazing Benefits:

• Competitive pay + travel time + mileage
• Free uniform
• Fully paid induction
• Guaranteed hours
• 6 weeks paid holiday
• Locations all over Cornwall
• Free DBS check
• Recognition awards

If you are looking for your next challenge and you are interested in working for an organisation that truly cares then please get in touch. We would love to hear from you.

Please click the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with experience of; Support Worker, Carer, Care Support, Care Assistant, Social Worker, Care Assistant, Enabler, Care Worker, Care Helper Care Management, Care Assist, Support Assistant, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Special Needs Support, Mental Health Support, Autism Support will be considered for this role.