Senior care worker duties from June 2023 till date: • Routinely oversees and monitors carers and support workers’ check-in and check-out; • Spot checks; • Build care plans for service users; • Review care plans; • Liaises with professional staff in carrying out care plans
etc. • Train care workers; • Liaise with other health care workers
such as general practitioners
occupational therapists
social workers
and the list goes on; • Take responsibility for the shift and for the service while on duty; • Respond to emergencies and provide guidance and support to care workers and service users. Care Duties Assigned from 2019 till date: • Getting residents up in the morning
helping them get washed
bathed
or showered
dressed
and go for breakfast (this may entail using some equipment such as a Sara steady
full body hoist
stand-aid hoist
Zimmer
walking frame
tuner
shower commode
recliner chair or wheelchair
and so on). • Administering medications during breakfast
lunch
dinner
and supper/tea times
as the case may be
• Ensuring patients are taken to their activities or medical or physiotherapy appointments. • Preparing lunch
dinner
and supper (I am an excellent cook). • Household duties: keeping the home clean and tidy (cleaning and tidying resident areas and bedrooms
changing beds and towels
using bed rails
and daily washing of clothes and other materials) while ensuring infection control. • Dealing kindly with relatives and visitors to the home. • Helping residents get to bed (this may entail using some equipment such as a Sara steady
full body hoist
stand-aid hoist
Zimmer
walking frame
tuner
shower commode
recliner chair or wheelchair
and so on). • Checking on residents. Assisting during the night if working on a night shift. • Ability to identify signs of illness or deteriorating health in a resident (daily risk assessments) • able to organise time and resources based on the individual needs of clients. • organising and assisting with recreational activities according to their weekly schedule • Maintaining confidential client files
preparing daily reports
and other documentation as required • being physically fit and able to transfer and sensitively move residents. • assisting in the implementation of treatment and care plans. • recording and securing residents’ properties and belongings (following safeguard rules at all times). • always maintaining the comfort and dignity of residents. • taking and recording the resident’s temperature
pulse
and respiration. • chaperoning and escorting around city centres and entertainment venues. • building and establishing rapport with service users. • understanding and adhering to their nutritional needs. • I am happy to work more than 40 hours a week and work flexible shifts.