My Role As A Home Care Assistant

My main duties are to ensure residents get supper and night time medication before they retire to bed, regular checks during the night are done to ensure they are safe and well. I also do the ironing to ensure they have clean laundered clothes, then I ensure the house is clean and tidy by brushing the floors, mopping and dusting. Stationary is plenty and all forms are readily available in appropriate file, MAR

It is very important to value the development of a good professional working relationship with carers as well as other health workers. Care staff are those who support the individuals everyday ensuring they have eaten, washed and many other things.

What can carers and care workers do to help make transitions in care a positive experience?

My responsibility as a care assistant is to deliver a very high standard service to individuals. This includes support for everyday living e.g. bathing, dressing, personal hygiene and general domestic tasks. Before performing any activities for the day, I go through my clients care plan and get all the information about the clients and any changes that may have occurred.

Healthcare Assistants play a vital role in the care of patients. Working under the direction of more senior healthcare professionals, they take care of the day-to-day needs of patients by providing help with personal care, meals and mobility.

* Must act as an advocate for those in one’s care, helping them to access relevant health and social care, information and support.

I am currently on placement at the Fred Paton Day Care Centre which is a Centre for elderly service users. My role in the facility is to provide support / assistance when required and to help engage service users in activities that are provided by the staff within the organisation. At present I am working with a 62 year old male who has recently suffered from a bad stroke and another recent mini stroke which has left him with limited mobility making some tasks harder for him.

I make sure that individuals are provided with care by making sure they are clean, rested, fed and that they are supported in their intellectual, social and emotional needs. You communicate with other people to provide seamless care such as arranging and attending appointments or carrying out treatments.

working in the care environment we must ensure safe and good practise is provided. We are influenced and have such provides to help us gain knowledge such as national factors such as; codes of practise, national occupational standards, legislations and government initiatives. Working in the care environment it is an legal requirement to have an inspection every now and then, which must meet agreed national standards. If not, to result in the home being shut down. Also, the ways of working are set out in legislation and government papers. Every nursing home will have there own policy and procedures which you are able to read for guidance. Also caring and providing for people it is important we behave in a professional manner.

A duty of care is a legal obligation to protect wellbeing and prevent harm within the health and social care sector. The duty of care is very important as it does not only protect the service users but the service provider’s as well. There are 7 principles all care workers must follow in order to care for the service users effectively. I will be investigating the quality of care given by service providers in both a child and adult health and social care settings. if the duty of care is not followed, implications can occur, for example it is a carers duty of care to report any signs of abuse they may notice on a patient, reporting this to higher authority etc could possibly save that service users life. Service users have rights to

It is important when working in ateam in a residential care home to know your staff team well and strive to support all young people to the best standard possible. It is important thaty realtionships within the team and both strong and professional in order to ensure that everything is done in a professional manner but everybody is working co operatively too. Team working must be efficient, time managed and

A home health aide, home care aide, or personal care assistant is a human service profession. According to Harris, Maloney, and Rother, human service workers require the same characteristics as “architects, nurses, Wall Street brokers, carpenters, or any other workers” (p. 67). These qualities include, “being responsible and reliable, addressing the work in an organized way, listening carefully, paying attention and focusing energy on the task at hand, having a constructive and supportive attitude, and forming a positive working relationship with others” (Harris, Maloney, & Rother, pg. 67-68). As a human service professional, the home health aide, home care aide, or personal care assistant should also have the ability to “use oneself to help others in a positive direction and communicate with clients, colleagues, and others” (Harris, Maloney, & Rother, pg. 68).

• I believe there are always room for improvement in one organization there is always a leader to ser one goal to aim for everybody . As a carer in Park house I need to develop my skills and improve my work with the help of other members. like for an example: every year we have so called appraisal interview which is so beneficial to every staff because in such way we will know the areas where we need to develop. Don’t be afraid to ask about yourself regarding work and never hesitate to open up new ideas to co-workers.

To begin with to work with my colleagues in our home will ensure the most effective of team work to achieve the most positive outcomes for our residents. As we all know, we have different shift pattern in the care home to meet our residents’ 24/7 care needs. It is unreasonable to expect any care staff to complete all the tasks on their own. Besides, as a head of care part of the care team, providing high quality of care is essential for my job role. By working wither my colleagues, we can share skills and experiences in terms of how to improve our services, and residents will be benefit as result

In 2013, Dorota Slawa Mankowska et al, worked on real study for a home care company that present the care for the at patients in their homes by staff members. They developed the mathematical model that aim to optimizing economical service cost and take care about individual qualifications of the staff, time preferences of patients, number of the staff required to this patient and certain time of patient’s drugs. This model has been able to achieve low average waiting times for patients, low traveling cost for caregivers, a fair distribution of inevitable tardiness, and service hundred patients in acceptable runtime.