Health Care Assistant
1 day ago
Bath
As a Healthcare Assistant, your duties may include working with another carer in a private care home, providing dedicated 1:1 support to an allocated resident/service user, and delivering care within the community. \n Key responsibilities: \n\n • Provide safe, respectful and person-centred care in accordance with individual care plans.\n, • Support service users with personal care, including washing, bathing, dressing, grooming, oral care, toileting and continence care.\n, • Maintain each person’s privacy, dignity, independence and personal choices at all times.\n, • Work alongside another carer when two members of staff are required to provide personal care, repositioning, transfers or mobility support.\n, • Use moving and handling equipment safely, including hoists, transfer aids and wheelchairs, following training and risk assessments.\n, • Provide dedicated 1:1 care to an allocated resident, remaining attentive and present throughout the shift.\n, • Understand why the resident requires 1:1 care and follow all relevant care plans, risk assessments and behavioural support guidance.\n, • Observe the resident closely and take appropriate action to reduce risks such as falls, wandering, distress, challenging behaviour or harm to themselves or others.\n, • Provide reassurance, companionship and meaningful activities suited to the resident’s interests, abilities and preferences.\n, • Encourage and assist with meals and drinks, recording food and fluid intake when required.\n, • Support safe mobility, repositioning and pressure-area care in line with the care plan.\n, • Prompt or support with medication only when trained, authorised and instructed to do so.\n, • Complete accurate, timely and detailed care records, including hourly 1:1 notes where required.\n, • Clearly document the care provided, the resident’s presentation, activities, risks identified, interventions and outcomes.\n, • Immediately report changes in health, behaviour, mobility, skin condition or wellbeing to the nurse, senior carer or manager.\n, • Report accidents, incidents, safeguarding concerns and near misses without delay.\n, • Communicate professionally with residents, families, care-home staff, nurses and healthcare professionals.\n, • Direct medical or clinical questions from relatives to the nurse or appropriate senior member of staff.\n, • Deliver community-based care by travelling to service users’ homes and arriving at each visit punctually.\n, • Support people in the community with personal care, meal preparation, medication prompts, mobility, light household duties, shopping and companionship, as specified in their care plans.\n, • Promote independence by encouraging service users to do as much as they can safely for themselves.\n, • Follow infection-prevention procedures and use personal protective equipment correctly.\n, • Maintain confidentiality and comply with safeguarding, health and safety, equality, data protection and company policies.\n, • Attend mandatory training, supervision, appraisals and team meetings as required.\n, • Maintain professional standards, including appropriate uniform, identification badge, punctuality and responsible conduct.\n, • Treat every resident and service user with kindness, patience, compassion and respect.\n\n