Support Worker

Overview:

Encounter Live-In Care Specialists is seeking to employee dedicated people to join our high skilled team of care professionals. As a Support Worker , you will be providing our service users with day-to-day care for the elderly and other people who are not able to take care of themselves at home.

Job Duties:

• Traveling between sites to provide care to multiple clients.
• Listening to a client’s needs, wants, and other suggestions about their care.
• Attending to patient's hygienic needs such as bathing, dressing, and toileting.
• Recording basic health information such as weight, food intake, and medication intake.
• Reporting any unexpected or worrisome conditions in the service user either medical, psychological, emotional, or otherwise.
• Assisting service users with meals preparation.
• Light household chores on behalf of the service user such as making the bed, tidying up the bedroom.
• Assisting service users with mobility needs (helping them get up, helping them get into a wheelchair or walker, pushing a wheelchair, etc.)
• Respecting the service users' privacy and rules of confidentiality.
• Establishing a relationship with each service user and their families.
• Responding to medical and other emergencies immediately.
• Benefits.- Wage’s rate: £11.45- £14.00.- Standard Care Training, Moving and Handling and Medication management.- Work uniform.- Sick Pay.- Continues Support through our personalised mobile app.- Provision of full PPE- Flexible hours- Full time contracted hours.Requirements- U.K Drivers licence.QualitiesPatience, attentiveness, empathy, communication, positive attitude, discretion, punctuality, friendliness.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: £11.45-£14.00 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 40 per week

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Sick pay

Day range:

• Every weekend
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends only

Physical setting:

• Homecare
• Live-in

Shift:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Night shift

Application question(s):

• Do you own a vehicle?

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 30/04/2024
Reference ID: ENCOU20241