Senior Support Worker

Role: Senior Support Worker - Nights only

Location: Bembridge, Isle of Wight

Salary: GBP10.00 per hour weekdays GBP11.00 per hour on weekends

Our client, a residential care home based in Bembridge on the Isle of Wight, currently requires a Senior Support Worker to work nights as part of their team. It is essential that applicants hold a Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care.

Key Responsibilities:

• To ensure that a safe, caring and homely environment for Residents is maintained which will allow and encourage them to develop to their full potential.
• To promote high standards of therapeutic care by an ongoing review of therapeutic practices and procedures.
• To treat Residents with courtesy and dignity at all times.
• To report to the General Manager, Deputy Manager, Nurse on shift or Clinical Lead (as applicable) on your observations on Residents mental, physical, spiritual and social well being.
• To provide a key working role and to arrange and hold supportive therapeutic sessions with allocated residents.
• To be responsible for the assessment, planning and implementation of individual care plans for allocated residents.
• To continually evaluate the care plans and modify when needed to ensure rehabilitation.
• To be aware of contents of other Resident's care plans and support the implementation of those plans.
  To assist in the administration of medications in accordance with legal requirements and the policies and procedures of Care.
• To assist Residents, as required, with their personal hygiene and care such as dental hygiene, bathing or washing and dressing, dealing with incontinence if appropriate.
• To ensure that Resident's are awakened and prepared to attend their day time activities i.e. day centres, appointments, training etc.
• To assist Residents with their laundry and general tidying of their rooms.
• To assist and encourage Residents in keeping their clothes and personal belongings in a reasonably tidy and clean manner.
• To ensure that handovers are accurately received and given, ensuring that all necessary documentation is written before the end of the shift such as the message book and the Residents daily notes and all such documents are read at the commencement of shift.
• To ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times.
• To ensure that all work related problems / issues, whether personal or Resident orientated, are discussed with the home manager.
• To liaise with other professionals as and when necessary regarding Residents.
• To supervise and assist Residents at mealtimes.

The above list of duties is not exhaustive

This vacancy is being managed by Charlie Grant at Spear Recruitment Ltd.

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