Job Title: Care Worker
Location: Blackheath
Salary: £12.93 per hour
Job Type: Permanent – Full time
Our most valuable resource are the people within Morden College; they provide the supportive, caring and inclusive environment both for colleagues and for our Residents. Our culture encourages and supports creativity, celebrates our differences and the similarities that draw us together as a community and promote the highest standards of individual behaviour and accountability in everything we do.
Morden College is a charity that is dedicated to enabling a life-lived independence for the older people they provide homes for, through life, as they grow older. Morden College has enriched the lives of its residents as well as their families, over the last 300 years. The Charity’s core purpose is to provide older people who are in need with a home for life within it’s beautiful grounds, with amazing facilities and surrounded by its caring people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest quality of care.
Our Charity’s Community Services are provided in the Almshouse accommodation at Blackheath and at Ralph Perring Court in Beckenham, through the vibrant communal space in the John Morden Centre and the case management approach that proactively identifies, assesses, and supports the most vulnerable in our community. Our residential care home, Cullum Welch Court (“CWC”), provides personal nursing and dementia care 24/7. With 32 beds, it is small enough to maintain a personalised service to its residents, yet large enough to provide the facilities required to meet their range of needs.
Morden College is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
JOB PURPOSE
As a Care Worker, your purpose will be to provide residents with a “good life” by promoting dignity, independence, choice and fulfilment within a policy of managed risk taking. You will provide a person cantered care to residents by assessing, monitoring and evaluating individual needs as well as providing comfort, security and making a difference to their daily lives. It’s important that you not only promote mental health and physical wellbeing to residents aiming to maximise their independence and meaningful engagement but also that you are able to update and maintain accurate care plans, records, assessments and are able to communicate this with families, GP’s, and other professionals.
KEY RESPONSIBILTIES AND DUTIES
- To work within the household team to which you are assigned at each shift, operating with respect and kindness to residents and colleagues and promoting a harmonious team atmosphere.
- To be approachable, receptive, and reactive to resident needs, providing day to day personal care and responding in a timely manner to call bells and requests for assistance; to record and report any changes in a resident’s condition to the appropriate professional to ensure their wellbeing, security and safety.
- Be responsive and sociable within the dementia household ensuring the inclusion of the resident in all social and occupational activities designed to enhance, stimulate, develop, and maintain the highest quality of life and enjoyment within the home.
- Promote the mental and physical wellbeing of individuals living with dementia, including maximising their independence, and fostering an understanding of interventions and techniques for managing behavioural and psychological issues.
- To assist in and deliver an ongoing programme of tailored and meaningful activities focused on maximising everyone’s wellbeing, independence, and social engagement, whilst nurturing and promoting their right to choose. Always responding positively and cheerfully to all enquiries, role modelling compassion and respect in all aspects of the care home.
- To ensure bed linen and laundry is collected, sorted and bagged ready for washing with adherence to colour coding/bagging of articles.
- To be familiar with Cullum Welch Court Policies and Procedures, to ensure compliance and understanding and safe practice, whilst providing a compassionate, warm, and caring environment.
SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Care Certificate
- QCF Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care
- QCF Level 2 Award in End of Life Care
- Experience in a residential care setting for older adults, including understanding of care responsibilities towards individuals, families and carers and team members in relation to safe-guarding and health and safety procedures.
- Effective communication skills that promote the needs of people who use the service.
- IT literacy specifically Microsoft packages
BENEFITS:
- We will provide you with Enhanced Annual Leave;
- CPD opportunities through a generous learning and development budget;
- Career Development Opportunities;
- Online Wellness Hub; Health Assessments;
- Free Perks and Discounts;
- Employee Assistance Programme;
- Discounts on food and drinks in our Café;
- Enhanced Pension;
- Life Assurance;
- Employee Referral Scheme;
- EV charging points available;
- Free on-site parking.
