Night Duty Care Assistant

Job Description

Night Duty Care Assistant

• Report to Nurses.
• Collect laundry basket & towels as required.
• Toilet & put Resident into bed, cot sides erected & buzzers checked & pressure mat placed at bottom of bed, if required.
• Clean clothes are left out with 2 pads & 2 towels for their morning personal hygiene.
• Residents remaining clean laundry is put away neatly & hung up as required. Any dried clothes should not be left in clothes baskets but should be taken out and folded and put into their allocated pigeon holes to prevent creasing.
• Commodes are rinsed out & left clean.
• Remaining Residents to be repositioned & toileted as required & left comfortable for the night. Charge the hoist for the next round.
• Laundry taken down & put into washing machine. Soiled clothes must be put into a red bag before being put into the washing machine.
• Go straight to have meal if Nurse in charge permits.
• All care assistants on duty commence household duties together as follows:
• a) Day room hovered & cushions taken off chairs and chairs brushed. All drinking glasses collected on a trolley. Make sure that all chairs are pulled into the middle of the room (so Domestic staff can mop behind them in the mornings).
• b) Tables wiped. Any equipment in day room is removed to its proper place.