Olivia Salmon

Senior Care Worker at Bedford Charter House (2024-04 – 2025-01)

Leadimg the care team and orgainising the day shifts to provide care and support to the residents.
To assist residents according to their needs and wishes with personal care including washing, toileting, dressing, undressing.
Adminstrating medication safely whislt assiting in safe keeping, stock count, and ordering in advance.
To lead the handover meetings for my team in a timely mannerat the beginning of each shift.
To assist in providing mental and physical stimulation for residents.
Obsverse, monitior, and conduct health checks to patients that are unwell or on end of life.

Deputy Manager at Ivolve care and support (2022-07 – 2023-10)

Completing fortnightly medication audits and report any concerns to the service manager immediately, taking action as necessary in a timely manner.
Creating, coordinating, and reviewing support plans for the people we support.
Solve problems and delegating tasks, to the team to ensue the service is run effectively.
Planning rotas in a timely manner to meet service needs and standards.
Participate in the growth and development of the business. Work with the senior management team to achieve business targets.
Overseeing admission tasks when new clients join the service such as organising benefits, changing address, organising medication, gaining consent and implementing initial support plans.
Ensuring that effective communication is maintained within the team and any issues are communicated with the service manager in a timely manner.

Community Support Worker at Francis House (2022-02 – 2022-07)

Accompanying service users to appointments.
Helping them with shopping, cook, personal care.
Assisting them with all aspects of care including personal care and medication management.
Encouraging independence with assisting and supporting clients with housework, and bills.
Supporting individuals to access their community.
Developing relationships and liaising with external health care professionals such as GP, social workers or community nurse.

Child Residential Support Worker at Salutem (2022-01 – 2022-07)

Provide advice, assistance and support to young people. To attend to their practical, physical and emotional needs.
Acting as an appropriate role model and to work closely with the young people to enable them to address their difficulties and achieve their optimum potential.
Provide a caring, supportive and nurturing environment in which children/young people can feel secure and free from harm.
Providing advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis.
Being familiar with all policies and procedures and adhering to them.

Mental Health Support Worker / Healthcare Assistant at Accomplish (2020-10 – 2022-01)

De-escalating challenging behaviours with by using verbal reassurance, re-focusing client's attention to positive engaging activities with peers and staff members or leading clients to refer to the skills learnt from DBT (dialect behaviour therapy).
Providing supervision that ensures clients safety and well-being.
Observing client's behaviour, keeping 24-hour records, and reporting any changes in behaviour, physical/ mental health to the nurse in charge.
Collaborating with staff members to identify issues and possible risk factors that could affect the clients.
Working with the practice nurses, doctors, nutritionists, and psychology team to develop treatment plans and strategies to best meet client's needs.
Recording physical observations such as temperature, heart rate and saturation levels checks daily.
Monitoring clients psychological needs by observing mental state and encouraging clients to communicate when their mental health has deteriorated.

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