Job description

We are seeking to recruit a positive, enthusiastic and compassionate Health Care Assistant to join our team of highly-experienced and compassionate health professionals, who are experts at caring for people with challenging health conditions.

As a Health Care Assistant working at Lindridge you will give care to residents within a beautifully appointed environment and help to ensure that their physical, social, psychological and emotional needs are met. Our care assistants are responsible for assisting residents to carry out their daily activities, by providing support at mealtimes, maintaining a safe and supportive living environment and assisting qualified staff to ensure the physical and emotional needs of residents are met.

If you are looking for the opportunity to work within a highly rated care home with the stability and backing of a large NHS Trust, then we would love to hear from you.

As a Health Care Assistant at Lindridge you will undertake duties related to the daily personal care of residents, in accordance with agreed programmes of care and under the general guidance of senior staff.

As an integral part of our motivated and dynamic team, you will ensure that service user’s physical and emotional needs, comfort and dignity are met and maintained, identifying and reporting any incidences of poor practice or abuse in line with the Safeguarding Policy. You will develop good relationships with residents under your direct care and provide them with daily care to help them maintain and improve, where possible, their independence, individuality and mobility.

Lindridge is a care home in the West Hove community of Hangleton, specialising in providing flexible long and short-term care packages which are tailored to support the unique needs of every individual who stays with us. Managed by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, we pride ourselves as being one of the region’s premier care home facilities, currently holding one of the top review scores for care homes in Hove on carehome.co.uk.

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

As a Health Care Assistant at Lindridge we can offer you:

• Competitive salary and flexible working opportunities
• Excellent supervision programmes
• Opportunity to study for QCF diplomas (levels 2 and 3) in Health & Social Care
• Access to a host of NHS discount schemes
• Entitlement to join excellent NHS Pension Scheme
• Free DBS & Uniform

REQUIREMENTS

To be successful as a care assistant at Lindridge you will be:

• Genuinely interested in working with older people
• Naturally caring and motivated to provide the best possible quality of life to our service users

It would also be advantageous if you have:

• Experience working with older adults in a care home setting
• A qualification or certification in Health & Social Care (e.g. NVQ Level 2)

MAIN DUTIES

• To assist residents to carry out their activities of daily living e.g. washing, dressing, eating and bathing including providing beverages for residents and their visitors.
• To contribute to ensuring effective communication with service users, their family, friends, external agencies and staff colleagues, referring enquiries about the residents’ condition to the Nurse in Charge.
• Always acting in a dignified and responsible manner with service users, visitors and colleagues; listening carefully and responding using appropriate language and communication skills which acknowledge cultural differences and professional boundaries.
• To have a knowledge of and understand the working applications of the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (local) policy, health & safety, infection control, reporting of accident, incident and adverse events protocols and all other relevant policies and protocols.
• To contribute to the ongoing quality of service and care, identifying and promptly reporting any risk issues or other significant factors in relation to the service users’ health and social care.
• To assist qualified staff in the on-going assessment of residents, reporting any changes to the Nurse in Charge.
• To help residents choose from the menu, assist them with eating and report comments on food or requests for particular dishes to the Chef Manager.
• To keep service users’ room tidy at all times and to carry out bed making and changing of linen. To assist with the tidiness of the common living and service areas, ensuring a safe environment.
• To take care of the residents clothing, ensuring the correct collection, distribution and return of all laundered items.
• To ensure the security of the residents’ property and that of the Home, reporting and handing in any lost property.
• To attend mandatory training sessions in line with Trust policy.
• To participate in the programme of activities for residents and to assist in the orientation of new care assistants.
• To carry out any other administrative duties as using both hard copy based systems and IT systems, including composing and sending Emails and Electronic Care Notes Systems.
• To recognise own responsibility in and contribute to the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
• To ensure strict confidential is maintained at all times and that records are kept in accordance with the Data Protection Act.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

Domizia Sgammini – Recruitment and Team Administrator: Domizia.Sgammini@spft.nhs.uk

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