Care Assistant

Summary

Interpid care is looking for a passionate Care Assistant to join their team in Leicester & Kettering. This role involves providing expert and compassionate care, ensuring patient well-being, and working within a team to achieve recovery goals. Key responsibilities include monitoring clients' physical and emotional well-being, accurate reporting, promoting choice, and facilitating a safe working environment. Applicants should have proven care delivery experience, good communication skills, and numeracy and literacy skills.

Key Responsibilities/Duties

• Working with other team members to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional recovery. Ensuring that rehabilitation goals, strategies and procedures are implemented and reinforced
• Monitoring the physical and emotional well-being of all clients in order to be aware of changes and to alert senior colleagues, as necessary. Assisting in maintaining morale of clients by communication and contact – achieved by talking and working with them
• Ensuring accurate reporting and documentation
• Reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the individuals’ experience. Challenging practice as appropriate and supporting junior and new staff
• Promoting choice in the delivery of care and support. Enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by the individual and/or their representatives.
• Supporting service users to have their views and experiences considered in the way the service is provided and delivered
• Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks

Core Requirements/Qualifications/Skills

• Proven experience of working within a team
• Care delivery experience
• Good communication skills
• Numeracy and literacy skills