JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:                              Support Workers.

Reports To:                         Manager

Accountable to:                Manager 

Role
Support workers will assist individual users to live as independently as possible within the community and their homes.

Principal Activities

Support worker assists 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

    Healthcare Assistant – 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 — 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

    Social care — supporting the service user to create and maintain relationships and activities within their      local community. Tasks involved may include:

• 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
  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 Penta-A 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.