Healthcare assistant / senor care assistant - st Edmunds residential home - Great Yarmouth
(2024-08)
Care assistance role
- Providing personal care, assisting with a wash, shower, bath, shave, oral health care, dressing
- Checking and reporting maintenance issues immediately, e.g. Broken equipment
- Monitoring health and wellbeing of clients
- Maintaining records e.g. personal care, diet, fluids and reporting any changes
- Assisting with meal preparation and assisting with meals, fluids
- Providing emotional support and companionship
- Involvement with writing clients' care plans
- Ensuring that the clients' wishes are met
- Gently encouraging residents to get involved with recreational activities and hobbies
- Answering the call bells and attending to clients needs
- Participate in training and support meetings as required
- Adhere to policies and procedures within the home and the trust
- Mobility assistance and teamwork
- Key worker duties
- Complete Online training
- Attending regular staff meetings
- Administrating medication
- Health monitoring
- Holding daily staff meetings/ handover meetings
- Doctors round
- Informing family of updated information/ change in circumstances
- Prescription orders
- Developing care plans
- Mentoring junior staff
- Booking appointments and arranging transport
- Supervision meetings with staff
Domestic cleaner/ laundry assistant - Burgh house - Great Yarmouth
(2021-08 - 2024-08)
Domestic cleaner and laundry assistant duties
- Sweep/vacuum, mop, and polish floors
- Dust and polish furniture, surfaces, and units
- Clean mirrors and other glass surfaces
- Maintain a clean kitchen area in staff kitchen
- Clean the clients bathrooms, toilets
- Take out the trash, clean the bins and replace the bin bag
- Make beds and change sheets
- Monitor cleaning supplies and order more when necessary
- Internal window cleaning
- Dusting or getting drapes and curtains washed
- Carpet cleaning / shampooing
- Have an understanding and comply with COSHH regulations
- Develop to comply with current legislation concerning infection control
- Participate in training and support meetings as required
- Adhere to policies and procedures within the home and the trust
- Sort, wash, dry and iron clothes, linens and other items
- Report maintenance issues immediately, e.g. Broken equipment
- Be responsible for the maintenance of the laundry equipment and the daily de-fluffing of the dryer
- Ensure that soiled and infectious linen is kept separate and washed accordingly
- Distribute clothes into the clients rooms
- Remove stains from items using the appropriate procedures
- Perform monitor sewing duties
- Ensure the correct marking of the residents' clothes
- Keep the laundry room and store area tidy, clean and hygienic
Healthcare assistant - Healthcare homes - Great Yarmouth
(2013-03 - 2021-08)
- Providing personal care, such as showering, shaving, oral hygiene and dressing
- Monitoring health and wellbeing of clients
- Maintaining records e.g. personal care, diet, fluids and reporting any changes
- Assisting with meal preparation and assisting with meals, fluids
- Providing emotional support and companionship
- Involvement with writing clients' care plans
- Ensuring that the clients' wishes are met
- Gently encouraging residents to get involved with recreational activities and hobbies
- Ordering incontinence pads for the appropriate clients
- Answering the call bells and attending to clients needs
