Night Intermediate Care Support Worker

Job Description

Job Title : Night Intermediate Care Support Worker
Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified
Location : Brookfield, Park Road, WA9 1HE, St. Helens MBC
Hours Per Week : 10.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £12.18
Purpose of the Post:

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and assist professional members of the Contact Cares service to provide integrated, multidisciplinary programmes of reablement aimed at promoting independence and helping to restore/maintain the service user’s ability to remain within the community.

Duties and Responsibilities:

To remain alert and aware throughout the night shift and undertake regular and discreet checks on the services users, ensuring that all checks and incidents are appropriately recorded in accordance with Departmental and CQC guidelines.

To undertake regular checks on exit doors, windows, waste bins and electrical appliances in accordance with health and safety requirements, remaining mindful of fire, trip and security risks.

To attend to the service user’s personal care needs i.e. washing, bathing, changing, toileting.

To assist the District Nursing Services in helping service users maintain appliances such as catheter and colostomy bags.

To undertake bed making and handling of soiled bed linen and ensuring that service users have adequate clean and serviceable clothing; and notifying the Duty Manager of the need for replacements and / or repairs.

Knowledge
An understanding of the rehabilitation processes that enable older people to return home and continue to live as independently as possible

Knowledge of Health and Safety issues

Skills and Abilities
Able to demonstrate positive interpersonal skills with clients, carers and professional colleagues.

Able to demonstrate appropriate and effective communication skills, both verbally and in writing.

Demonstrate an ability to work both unsupervised, using own initiative where approriate and as part of a team

Good observation skills

Ability to follow verbal and written instructions

Experience
Caring for elderly and disabled people in a formal of informal setting e.g. caring for family

Working unsupervised on a day to day basis, as well as part of a team

Liaising with other agencies