Job Title: Live-in Carer
Location: Birmingham
Salary: from £600 per week, potentially higher earnings dependent on clients complexity.
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
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Elite Live In Care focus on working with our clients and their families to create a tailored care package that meets their or their loved one’s needs in the comfort of their own home.
The Role:
Live in carers are employed to live and work with clients in the client’s own home on a 24-hour basis. The role is to provide care and support as specified in the client’s individual care and support plan whilst maintaining at all times their privacy, dignity and promoting their independence.
This will not only include meeting their personal care needs, but all their practical aspects of daily living, including social and wellbeing activities.
Care provided by carers is expected to include care that would reasonably be given by members of the client’s own family and will not include tasks that would normally be undertaken by a trained nurse.
Only when trained to do so would care workers undertake any specialist tasks. Our clients’ needs range from companionship to end of life care. Live in care is to enable the client to return home/remain at home to be as independent as possible.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
To provide safe, reliable, compassionate care and support that is based on the individuals care and support plan. You must build positive relationships with the client, their family and other health and social care professionals.
You as the live in care, may be the only person the client sees over a long period of time, it is therefore essential to report any changes and/or causes for concern to your line manager promptly.
You need to be clear about when to seek help and advice to keep our clients safe and to promote their wellbeing.
Duties:
- Care and support
- Personal care of individuals
- Assist clients with medications
- Assisting clients with eating and drinking
- Monitoring the client’s health and wellbeing
- Safely assisting clients with their mobility needs (using equipment such as a hoist, slide sheet, rotunda, stand aid, wheelchair etc)
- Assisting clients with practical aspects of daily living
- Taking your client out for Social activities
- Palliative / end of life care
- Reporting and keeping records
- Attending Elite Live In Care’s training and development scheme.
The Candidate:
You will be committed, respectful, reliable, honest and trustworthy. We have nationwide vacancies available for anyone who is willing to travel to Hampshire and surrounding areas.
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