Advanced Community Care Worker

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Job description

We are seeking to recruit an Advanced Community Care Worker to join our team to cover the Ballymena & Antrim area. The successful candidate will be required to facilitate and deliver intermediate domiciliary care for clients being discharged from hospital or other intermediate care setting to their own homes. Please see employer website for full job details & person specification.

Responsibilities

• Adapt practice to changing needs of clients.
• Ensure that issues arising with a care plan or client condition are reported contemporaneously to key service management personnel and multi-disciplinary team.
• Adhere to company confidentiality policy.
• Complete good quality records in accordance with company standards.
• Welcome new staff, lead by example, and promote a team working culture.
• Answer calls from your co-ordinator/line manager and respond to messages immediately ensuring you have a working mobile phone at all times.
• Maintain a flexible approach to your rota which may require change at short notice
• Follow the out-of-hours on-call procedure appropriately and participate in care worker ‘stand-by’ on an occasional and rotational basis.
• Assist On-Call in an advisory capacity as requested in regard to securing cover for shifts and any other adverse events.
• Develop professional rapport with multi-disciplinary team members involved in service user care.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Full driving licence and access to a car & car insurance in connection with business.
• Minimum 6 months of domiciliary care experience
• Access to mobile phone.

Further Information

Work Time: Day shift 7am-6pm, evening shift 6pm-11pm Monday to Sunday. Benefits: -£300 joining bonus after 3 months in your role. -£13.83 per hour and enhanced holiday rates Block Pay. -Guaranteed hours no zero-hour contract. -Access to a company car. -Paid training. Free uniform. -Eligible to apply for a Blue Light Discount card. -Access to Employee Mental Health Support line. -No upfront cost for your Enhanced Access NI. -Daily support from the office team. -Company Pension.