Healthcare Assistant – (Residential Service)
Position: Healthcare Assistant – (Residential Service)
Reports to: Person In Charge
Location: Kilkenny – Ireland
Salary: up to €13.45PH (DOE)
Position Overview:
Abbreviated, full job description will be provided on application.
The post holder will be required to take an active part in ensuring that the day-to-day operations of the Service reflect the ethos and vision of the Client’s Communities
The person appointed will be part of a day and residential support team who will work intensively with individuals to discover what will constitute a good life for the individual and to establish what supports the individual will need to achieve their goals. In order to do this, there is a requirement that the post holder will work in partnership with the social care team and important people in the individual’s life.
Key Responsibilities:
- Respect each person who uses the services as an equal citizen.
- Uphold and respect the human, legal and constitutional rights of each person who uses the service, recognising their individuality and equality, and empowering them to grow, thereby achieving the highest possible level of personal autonomy.
- Facilitate, encourage and develop the choice and decision-making skills of people who use the services.
- Facilitate, encourage and develop the self-advocacy skills of and opportunities for involvement in advocacy for people who use services.
- Enable each individual supported by the services to pursue and maintain their individual hobbies and interests.
- Foster, encourage and develop the self-help and social skills of each individual supported by the services so as to achieve the greatest degree of autonomy possible.
- Facilitate each individual supported by the services to actively participate and integrate into the community, through the use of generic community facilities
- Ensure a person centred approach to service delivery.
In the context of the individual person centred plans, support people who use the service with aspects of individual and group service responses including:
- Occupation and leisure activities
- Communication
- Behavior support plans
- Independent living skills
- Social Integration and the use of community facilities
- Personal Care
- Personal Development
- Assist with fostering, encouraging and developing each individual supported by the services’ self-care skills, particularly in relation to personal hygiene, health matters and care for their personal appearance.
- Support the individual by ensuring appropriate:
- Physical support – moving and handling, fire safety, cleaning, laundry, infection control, mobility and communication needs. o Personal care – dressing, bathing toileting, assistance with eating, sleeping support, skins care, first aid and health promotion.
- Attend all medical appointments as required.
- Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered and takes individual choice into account.
- Encourage and promote each person’s full participation in their home while at the same time ensuring that their home and its environs are maintained to acceptable standards where each resident has access to comprehensive, person-centred and holistic personal support.
- In consultation with the individual implement person centred plans and ensure that the needs identified are appropriately addressed and participate in resident reviews as required.
- Achieve competency in driving the centre transport and participate in transport duties as required. This may necessitate flexible starting and finishing times.
- As a full team member to accept delegated responsibility for the physical and emotional well-being as well as the personal hygiene of the individuals supported by the service.
- Participate and assist with the organisation of centre outings.
Qualifications:
- QQI Level 5 Major Award on the QQI Framework or higher in Community /Healthcare or equivalent relevant qualification in Health or Social Care
- Candidates must have 1 years’ experience of working with vulnerable adults or adults with intellectual disabilities
- An understanding of current policy and developments at national and sectoral level in relation to Social Care within disability services
- Good knowledge of HIQA Regulations and Standards and the relevant regulative framework
We are open to speaking to people currently living in Ireland with the relevant requirements and would also be able to assist overseas / Expat workers looking to return to Ireland.
Please apply through the link provided or send your cv direct to lmurphy@medforce.ie and we will come back to you as soon as possible to answer any queries or provide extra advice/information.
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