Social Care Assistant CCoI (Dunshane) Permanent & Relief Positions

1 Duties & Responsibilities

The Social Care Assistant shall be responsible for the following:

Advocacy & Rights

1 Respect each person who uses the services as an equal citizen.

2 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.

3 Facilitate, encourage and develop the choice and decision-making skills of people who use the services.

4 Facilitate, encourage and develop the self-advocacy skills of and opportunities for involvement in advocacy for people who use services.

5 Enable each individual supported by the services to pursue and maintain their individual hobbies and interests.

6 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.

7 Facilitate each individual supported by the services to actively participate and integrate into the community, through the use of generic community facilities.

Person Centred Support for Living

8 Ensure a person centred approach to service delivery

9 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

Behaviour support plans

Independent living skills

Social Integration and the use of community facilities

Personal Care

Personal Development

10 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.

11 Support the individual by ensuring appropriate:

Physical support – moving and handling, fire safety, cleaning, laundry, infection control, mobility and communication needs.

Personal care – dressing, bathing toileting, assistance with eating, sleeping support, skins care, first aid and health promotion.  

12 Attend all medical appointments as required.

13 Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered and takes individual choice into account.

14 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.

15 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.

16 Achieve competency in driving the centre transport and participate in transport duties as required. This may necessitate flexible starting and finishing times.

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