Home Care Worker - Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway
Home Care Worker | Dalbeattie
£10.76 per hour
28 days holiday entitlement
£0.26 of travel allowance
- Award-winning care provider
- Excellent career progression
- Staff bonuses
Salary: £9.36 - £10.76 per hour.
Location: Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Dalbeattie and Dumfries and surrounding areas.
Stewartry Care is one of the largest independent providers of care at home services in Dumfries and Galloway. We became employee-owned in 2004, which means that the company is owned and run for the benefit of its employees. Employees benefit from yearly free shares, a sense of ownership and pride and having a say in their future working life. Over the last 2 years, Stewartry Care has been awarded Care at Home Provider of the Year at the Scottish Care Awards and Outstanding Social Enterprise of the Year at the Dumfries and Galloway Business Awards.
As a Home Care Worker with Stewartry Care, you will enjoy a very rewarding and fulfilling career. We are currently recruiting and have full time, part-time and bank positions available in Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright, Dalbeattie and Dumfries and surrounding areas. We offer excellent rates of pay.
We are looking for caring, highly motivated and reliable people to join our team to provide care and support with daily living tasks according to each individual’s personal care plan, allowing our service users to live independently within their own homes. Previous experience is not essential as we provide a comprehensive induction and training programme ensuring that our Home Care Workers feel supported and confident within their role. Driving license desirable but not essential in some areas. Please get in touch today!
Job description
- To provide assistance with personal care and other daily living tasks to service users as identified by their assessed need, which will allow people to live independently in their own homes.
- To work in partnership with service users, informal carers and other agencies to empower and encourage choice to maximise independence. There should be ongoing communication with line managers when required and a commitment to team working and support.
Key responsibilities
- To undertake personal care and support service users with daily living tasks according to their personal care plan including administration of medication, continence management, stoma care, mobilising, food preparation, transportation amongst other tasks.
- To work at all times according to company policies and procedures, Health and Social Care Standards and Care Inspectorate guidelines.
- To encourage choice and independence for all service users.
- To work as part of a team by developing good working relationships with colleagues and other professionals
- To communicate effectively with line managers in particular regarding changes concerning service users
- To use the on-call and emergency procedures as guided
- To attend all mandatory training, team meetings and supervision sessions as required
- To accurately complete documentation, including service user records, personal timesheets, mileage, holidays and availability.
key competencies for the job role
- Ability to work alone and/or part of a team
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships
- Ability to communicate with a range of people
- Ability to complete accurate records in relation to service user care
- Ability to work flexibly with team members, service users and their families/carers.
