Social Care Worker (Adults) inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED 21 AUG 2024

To provide safe care and support of adults at risk ensuring all their basic needs identified in their support plan and risk assessments are fully met.To provide person-centred quality care that is tailored to the needs and aspirations of each individual. This personalised approach must ensure that individual outcomes are met and everyone is treated with dignity, respect and compassion.


D

uties and responsibilities


This is not a comprehensive list of all the tasks, which may be required of the post holder. It is illustrative of the general nature and level of responsibility of the work to be undertaken:-

Social Care Worker

• To support the delivery of agreed plans of care ensuring that service users are supported safely and individual needs and service targets are met. The quality and standard of care must meet CQC fundamental standards.
• To support clients with their personal care as determined within their individual care plan. Personal care can include supporting service users undertake activities such as dressing, washing, bathing or shaving, toileting, getting in or out of bed, eating, drinking, taking medication and communicating.
• Postholders are required to be involved in monitoring the progress of service users, being mindful of triggers for challenging behaviour, seizures and acting appropriately in line with agreed guidelines and to highlight any changes in an individuals behaviour to the manager so that the support plans can be updated.
• To provide support for individuals who may regularly place emotional demands on the jobholder; and raising significant issues to the manager.
• Postholders will attend and contribute positively to meetings as requested by the manager providing input by sharing the outcome of interactions with service users and highlighting issues that may have an impact on the review of the service users case.
• To ensure the accurate administration and recording of medication, including rescue medication, in line with the Councils Medication policy. Postholders will need to ensure that agreed protocols are followed when supporting an individuals personal care such as peg feeding, postural care, changing stoma bags, buccal suction, medication via a peg etc.
• Postholders are expected to ensure all records are updated and accurate. This includes ensuring appropriate information security protocols are applied when sharing and preparing information relevant to the service users care. Records include care plans, risk assessments, work related logs and other template based documents.
• As postholders will be have direct contact with a range of people involved in care delivery; service users, families, care/medical professionals, other colleagues etc, they must ensure they act and communicate professionally and appropriately at all times.
• The role involves operating equipment such as hydraulic lifts in accordance with training.
• The job involves ensuring that correct safety procedures are applied when transporting medication and medication aids such as oxygen on vehicles.
• The role involves escorting clients safely in vehicles. To conduct basic daily vehicle checks ensuring safety procedures are applied by the checking of seat-belts, wheelchair clamps in accordance with training and assisting the driver in conducting vehicle checks on external lights.
  
  
  

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ealth and safety


To use equipment as instructed and trained.

To inform management of any health and safety issues which could place individuals in danger.

To be proactive and familiarise yourself with risk assessments and support plans relating to: individuals within the service, the activities and the environment.


Data Protection and Information Security


Implement and act in accordance with the Information Security Acceptable Use policy and Data Protection Policy.

Ensure that factual and correct records are maintained and shared only with those who have the right or need to know.

Protect the councils information assets from unauthorised access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference.

Report actual or potential security incidents.