Health Care Assistant/ Support Worker

Integral Focus

Harringay, UK

4d ago

Reports To : Office Manager

The Support Worker will support individual users to live as independently as possible within the community.

Principal Activities

Support Workers support service users in maintaining their own personal health, social, therapeutic, and domestic care.

Areas of support will be as follows :

Personal Care - supporting the client, with privacy and dignity, to :

Wash his / her body and hair

Dress

Use the toilet

Eat and Drink

Maintain personal grooming

Prepare meals, taking into account any special dietary needs

Empty Commode

Health Care - to work alongside other professionals in assisting the service user with :

Catheter care / Continence

Stoma care

Ointments with authorisation letter only (speak to office)

Eye drops p b with authorisation letter only (speak to office)

Prompts for medication

Care and observation of pressure areas

Bowel Care

Therapeutic Care - under the supervision of designated therapists assisting the service user with :

Maintenance of mobility

Maintenance of daily living / functional skills

Other therapeutic care as agreed

Domestic Care to work with the service user to maintain their physical environment. Tasks may include :

Laundry- washing and ironing

Cleaning areas of the home

Lighting / turning on fire

Checking household security

Collecting pensions / benefits and prescriptions

Providing information

Conversation and listening

Emotional support befriending

Promoting local networks of support links with family and friends

Assisting with recreational / social activities as part of the care plan

Letter writing

Advocacy

Support in hospital, hospice, day care or residential setting

Social care supporting the service user to create and maintain relationships and activities within their local community.

Tasks involved may include :

General

All of the above activities are governed by the operational policies, standing financial instructions, policies and procedures and standards of care as well as legislation and professional standards and guidelines.

Other duties / responsibilities

As a term of your employment with Integral Focus Support and Care Services, you can be required to undertake such other duties commensurate with your grade and / or hours of work at your initial place of work or at any other establishments, as may be reasonably required of you.

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