Support Work - Care Practitioner

Liquid Personnel is seeking a compassionate and dedicated Care Practitioner to join our client's healthcare team. The ideal candidate will provide high-quality care to patients across various settings, including care homes, assisted living facilities, and home care environments. This role involves supporting individuals with diverse needs, including those requiring Alzheimer's, dementia, and older age.

The successful applicant will possess relevant skills in patient care, medication administration, and behaviour management, ensuring the well-being and comfort of those under their supervision.

We are looking for people who truly share our values and our passion for outstanding levels of care in the community.

Responsibilities:

• Remain committed and passionate about delivering the highest standards of care to our Service Users and work with your team to do so.
• Ensure that our service users are always shown dignity and respect.
• Empower and encourage our service users to remain as independent as possible.
• To follow the directions of the Branch Manager and/or co-ordinator in the care to be provided to each individual service user
• To assist service users, who need help with getting up in the morning, dressing, undressing washing, bathing and toileting
• To help service users with mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including incontinence; help in use of aids and personal equipment
• To help care for service users who are dying
• To help in the promotion of mental and physical activity of service users through talking to them, taking them out, sharing with them in activities such as reading, writing, hobbies and recreations as indicated on the care plan
• To make and change beds; tidy rooms; do light cleaning and empty commodes.
• To launder service user’s clothing
• To set tables and trays; serve meals; feed service users who need help; prepare light meals and wash up
• To read and write reports; take part in staff and service users’ meetings and in training activities as directed
• To perform such other duties as may be reasonably required

Qualifications & Experience:

• To be successful in this role you must have, Experience working as a healthcare assistant in a care setting preferable
• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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