Home Support Worker

Responsibilities

The role may involve some or all of the following. This is not intended as a complete list and is supplied for information only

• Assist clients to get up, dressing and preparing them for their day
• Washing, bathing, showering, oral care, grooming
• Toileting, assisting with use of commode, emptying commode
• Continence management
• Using manual handling equipment as specified
• Working with other care professionals such as District Nurses, GP’s, etc.
• Assisting with prescribed medication
• Assist clients to go to bed, including undressing and washing
• Preparation of meals and assistance with feeding
• General household duties
• Bed making and laundry
• Shopping and supplies management
• To keep accurate records of care visits.

Essential

• Genuine care for others
• Good communication skills
• Ability to understand what the role entails
• Ability to follow instructions
• Own transport and full driving license

Desirable

• Experience in care provision
• Flexible availability

Key Competencies

• To be able to attend to all client calls
• To understand the importance of such calls
• To be able to cope with emergency and difficult situations
• To be able to communicate with other people
• To be able to maintain high standards of care provision.

Values-based Personal Qualities

Working Together

• Involve service users, families, external agencies and colleagues
• Speak up when things go wrong

Respect and Dignity

• Understand person-centered care and can demonstrate treating people as individuals and respecting choices
• Promoting independence and encouraging appropriate risk taking

Everybody Counts

• Ensuring no one is discriminated against or excluded
• Understand human rights and impact on care delivery
• Facilitating people to ‘speak up’ about concerns and acting upon them

Commitment to Quality of Care

• Striving for quality in everything we do, recognising and understanding what quality in care means for people using the services
• Being accepting about criticism and focusing on improvement
• Being open to new opportunities for learning and identifying the limits of skills and knowledge

Compassion

• Treating people with kindness
• Understanding the importance of empathy in all areas of employment
• Understanding the values of others and always providing a caring service

Improving Lives

• Focus on how things could be done better and sharing ideas
• Understanding of wellbeing and what is important to people using the service
• Improving outcomes for people
• Ensuring appropriate services are provided for people using the services

Please ensure your profile is completed as fully as possible to increase your chances of being interviewed. All mandatory questions in the application form must be answered in order to submit your application. When there is no answer applicable or unable to answer please fill in ‘N/A’ in the answer box to allow you to submit your application. When there is no answer applicable or unable to answer please fill in ‘N/A’ in the answer box to allow you to submit your application.

References

You must provide references from your two most recent employers. If you are unable to obtain two professional references, e.g. in the case of an applicant who has been raising children for ten years, please provide one employer and one character or two character references. All references will be contacted, therefore please inform the referees of the fact that you have used their name. If you are unable to provide the required references, p[lease discuss the matter with us.

Safeguarding

Ex-Offenders Declaration

Please note this section will only be seen by those involved in the recruitment process and will be treated with the strictest of confidence.

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

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Privacy

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To apply for the job please use the following link: https://caringheartsscotland.factorialhr.com/job_posting/67375