Care Assistant Profile

Job Purpose

To support students in our residential setting and school/college. Providing personal care, assisting with eating, and drinking, and moving and handling are all important aspects of this role.

General Duties

To help our students to fulfil their intellectual, spiritual, physical, creative, social, and emotional potential by helping to provide an interesting and positive care environment in which they can feel comfortable, secure, and able to thrive.

Caring duties:

• To enable delivery of a welcoming, and caring environment, informal in nature whilst upholding the highest standards in care, whilst ensuring the care and support given is tailored to the individual needs of each student
• Perform specialised procedures associated with the students’ particular needs, for example personal and intimate care, administration of medication, care during a medical emergency i.e. during a seizure, manual handling, and use of manual handling equipment
• To act as a key worker to a student and advocate for them as required. To ensure their support plan is regularly reviewed and kept up to date
• To provide the Care Management Team with monthly key worker reports and to maintain the students’ daily blogs
• To undertake activities necessary to meet the physical and emotional needs of our students, including supporting in the hydrotherapy pool
• To promote maximum independence, encouraging each student to have a positive attitude about themselves and their abilities
• To maintain the high standards within the care team by working effectively as a team member, using initiative, and contributing any skills, knowledge, opinions, and ideas to tasks
• To consult with school and college staff, and therapists to ensure the best possible care for our students
• To liaise and communicate with parents/carers
• To undertake “sleep-in” duties as scheduled into the work rota and to be available for sleep-in duty in the event of an emergency
• To work on a rota basis and be flexible and adaptable enough to work with students of all ages wherever required with St Rose’s, as requested by the Principal or a member of the Care Management Team

Standards and Quality Assurance:

• To always represent St Rose’s in a professional and positive manner
• To promote and maintain professional, collaborative, and supportive working relationships across all teams and external partners
• To prepare for and proactively participate in supervision and annual performance and development reviews (PDR)
• To support the quality assurance agenda by collaborating closely with senior staff to ensure standards are met in the following areas:

• Key lines of enquiry of the Care Quality Commission and Ofsted’s National Minimum Standards for residential special schools
• Infection control
• Medication
• Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
• Incidents and risk
• Health & Safety
• Concerns, complaints, and compliments

Housekeeping duties:

• To assist in tidying rooms, ensuring the residential facilities are maintained to high levels of cleanliness and safety
• To assist with the preparation of meals and the cleaning up of the dining room and kitchen as and when required
• To assist with laundry duties

Administration duties:

• To ensure accurate record keeping is maintained
• To ensure all episodes of care are accurately documented
• To be conscientious and careful in the maintenance of accurate records of all types and ensure confidentiality is respected and always protected
• To ensure personal training records are kept up to date
• To ensure own knowledge and skills are maintained whilst highlighting any gaps in training and knowledge to the Care Management Team

Other responsibilities:

• To adhere to St Rose’s policies on Quality, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Health & Safety, Safeguarding, E-Safety and Acceptable Use
• To maintain data protection and confidentiality at all times
• To contribute to the overall ethos/work/aims of St Rose’s and maintain good communication with all stakeholders
• Present a positive personal image, contributing to a welcoming environment and treat all users of St Rose’s with courtesy and consideration
• Appreciate and support the role of other professionals
• Participate in training and other learning activities and performance development as required
• To carry out any other reasonable duties within the overall function, commensurate with the grading and level of responsibility of the job as required by the Principal or Vice Principal or staff with delegated responsibility

Special notes or conditions:

• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The post will be subject to an Enhanced DBS to satisfy safeguarding requirements
• The post holder will be required to fulfil their role adhering to St Rose’s Safeguarding policy and report any concerns in line with this to the Designated Safeguarding Lead or relevant body
• To fulfil duties and use equipment safely, the post holder will need to adhere to the St Rose’s Acceptable Use policy
• Strict confidentiality should always be observed in line with our Confidentiality policy