Care Assistant Plas Y Don

1. We are seeking an individual to join our team as care assistant.
2. The purpose of the role is to ensure that the people of gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
3. Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package.

Reference: 24-27698

Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.

We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually.

(Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)

Purpose Of The Post:

• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
• Help individuals to live their lives as they wish to live.
• Take on the full care role in the home.
• Collaborate with other agencies, for the benefit of the individuals, including attending reviews, meetings with health, consulting with specialists.
• Administration of medicines

Responsibility For Functions:

• Ensure appropriate use of users' property e.g., medicine and cash.
• Make appropriate use of specialist equipment to assist the individual to live his/her life as they wish to live. This includes reporting on deficiencies and following practice protocols and specialist training as required.

Main Duties:

Support The Individual Who Use The Services

Role - full charge of home role if appropriate

• Take responsibility for the residential care home and the responsible person role.
• Lead staff with their work duties.
• Take decisions in the absence of managers, e.g., receive admissions back from hospital, lead in an emergency, respond to enquiries.
• Lead and respond to an emergency situation involving users and the building
• Identify changes in the health and well-being of individuals and respond quickly and appropriately to them.
• Be progressive and willing to make informed decisions independently, while also applying professional opinion and knowing when to attract support from the wider team and other professions.

Care Worker Duties:

• Excel in building relationships with people to understand exactly what would make a difference to them in their lives and empower the voice of the individual at every opportunity.
• Be innovative and creative when giving care in a way that fully includes people, that continuously strives to include people in even the simplest of activities and enable or re-able people to take control of their own lives.
• Be a key worker for individuals attending meetings and contribute orally and in writing
• Maintain and support the procedure for administering and distributing medicines in accordance with the service policy.
• Promoting the rights of the individual and encourage them to take positive and informed risks.

Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package.

Job Type / Hours: Permanent, 37 Hour

Location(s): Cartref Plas y Don, Pwllheli