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Nightingale Healthcare Solutions LTD Job Description

This job description is for an Agency Care Assistant position at Nightingale Healthcare Solutions Ltd. The responsibilities include providing high quality care to residents, maintaining their privacy and dignity, answering calls for assistance, and performing light domestic duties. Key duties are attending to residents' hygiene, mobility, and other needs, following care plans, communicating with managers, and maintaining a safe and caring environment. The ideal candidate will have interest and experience in caring for elderly/disabled individuals, and possess reliability, sensitivity, communication skills and ability to work as part of a team.

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Nightingale Healthcare Solutions LTD Job Description

This job description is for an Agency Care Assistant position at Nightingale Healthcare Solutions Ltd. The responsibilities include providing high quality care to residents, maintaining their privacy and dignity, answering calls for assistance, and performing light domestic duties. Key duties are attending to residents' hygiene, mobility, and other needs, following care plans, communicating with managers, and maintaining a safe and caring environment. The ideal candidate will have interest and experience in caring for elderly/disabled individuals, and possess reliability, sensitivity, communication skills and ability to work as part of a team.

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NIGHTINGALE HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS LTD

JOB DESCRIPTION

POSITION: Agency Care Assistant

RESPONSIBLE TO: Office Manager (Home Manager while on shift)

JOB SUMMARY

To provide a high standard of resident care in the home and undertake certain domestic
duties.

To provide a safe and caring environment that promotes the residents’ physical, emotional
and psychological well-being.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

1 To provide a high standard of care, including hygiene, continence, mobility, dressing


and general care.

2 To ensure the residents’ privacy and dignity is maintained at all times

3 To answer emergency bells or calls from residents immediately and seek further
assistance if necessary.

4 To assist residents with whatever they need, maybe even just for company,
reassurance or a refreshment.

5 To join with other staff to work as a team in helping prepare residents for bed or
assisting them in the morning, as directed by the person in charge.

6 In the time available between attending to residents undertake domestic, as directed


by the person in charge.

7 To follow care plans provided.

8 To communicate with the Home Manager and the person in charge both verbally and
in writing about the residents’ general condition and developments in the home.

9 To promote a safe and caring environment maintaining general tidiness and


promoting a homely atmosphere.

10 To work as a team with those staff on duty and communicate between each other.

11 To greet any visitor with courtesy and ensure identification is sought with reference
to security.

12 To answer the telephone and take messages as required.

13 To adopt a positive and pleasant attitude, an approachable manner and give attention
to residents’ needs.
14 To uphold the key principles of residents’ rights, citizenship, independence, choice,
privacy, fulfilment and dignity.

15 To maintain confidentiality and discretion in communicating personal matters to


senior and other members of staff and other residents and relatives.

16 To respect residents’ beliefs and values.

17 To conform at all times with the company health and safety at work policy.

18 To have knowledge of general procedures of care homes and aim to conform at all
times with all procedures in the home.

19 To have good knowledge of the following procedures and know what to do in events
that may occur:

FIRE ABUSE/SAFEGUARDING
HEALTH & SAFETY ACCIDENT & INCIDENT
MOVING & HANDLING FIRST AID

20 To be involved in the making of and serving of light meals and beverages.

21 To be aware of how and when to use the whistle blowing procedure.

22 To maintain accurate notes and records of residents and to hand over information to
staff that is relevant to the ongoing care of individual residents.

23 To be available to attend all mandatory training and other appropriate training as


determined by the Nightingale Healthcare Solutions Ltd.

24 To carry out such other duties as may be reasonably required by the Home Manager
or person in charge.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

1. Have an interest in working with people with the elderly, learning disabilities and/or
mental health issues.
2. Be totally reliable, trustworthy and honest.
3. Be self motivated and organised.
4. Be flexible and able to work unsupervised.
5. Be caring and sensitive to the needs of others.
6. Use initiative and have common sense.
7. Be able to work as part of a team.
8. Be a good communicator.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Experience of working in a care setting.

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