Waking Night Care and Support Worker

Job summary

Job Title: Waking Night Care Worker

Location: Sir Aubrey Ward, Marlow

Hours: Full and Part Time Hours Available

Pay: £12.95 per hour

Are you interested in working for a charity that has been changing the lives of older people and those with learning disabilities and dementia for over 25 years?

We have an exciting opportunity in our nursing home in Marlow, for a Care Worker to join our team – to provide high quality, person-centred care, allowing our residents to live their lives as they choose. You’ll be working from care plans, supporting residents through mealtimes and personal care, engaging in activities, and providing companionship. By joining us as a Care Worker, you will support the values of putting care and kindness at the heart of all you do.

Principle tasks will include:

• Provide respectful high-quality support and care for people who use Fremantle services in accordance with their individual Support Plans.
• As key worker for individual people who use services, develop with their participation a person-centred Support Plan ensuring that their assessed needs and wishes are comprehensively met. Ensure the plan is kept up to date, obtaining appropriate input from relatives, other professionals and staff colleagues.
• Practically assist people who use services with tasks of daily living such as personal care and mobility, and end of life care, as directed in the Support Plan.
• Support people who use services to take their medication as prescribed and recorded in the individual Medication Administration Record.
• Ensure that people who use services have companionship and social, emotional and leisure support in accordance with their wishes and the Support Plan
• Ensure that people who use services receive planned or urgent health care whenever required.
• Record essential information in the people who uses services’ daily reports, care and health monitoring charts, accident and incident reports, and service message systems clearly, accurately and immediately.
• Ensure that day-to-day tasks and routines are carried out to contribute to the smooth running of the service as a whole.

Data Protection

The post holder must at all times respect the confidentiality of information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act. This includes, if required to do so, obtain, process and/or use information held on a computer in a fair and lawful way, to hold data only for the specified registered purposes and to use or disclose data only to authorised persons or organisations as instructed.

The Fremantle Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation or age.