Live in carer

Community Care Worker

Axela Care is a domiciliary care company created to provide care and support to people living in the community. We believe in enabling our clients to achieve a high level of independence by providing high-quality, person-centred care.

We believe that all vulnerable adults have an equal right to protection from abuse, regardless of their age, race, religion, ability, gender, language, background, or sexual identity and consider the welfare of the vulnerable adult is paramount.

As an employee of Axela Care, we value you as an individual and a committed member of staff. We will give you support and training to improve your skills and will work with you to provide opportunities for your career progression.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for a confident and dynamic person to work in the community to assist Service User’s we currently provide care to in their own homes. Live-In Carers are employed to work within clients’ homes to provide a timely, flexible, and complementary role over a 24-hour period to organise the household and personal care routine of the clients.

The aim of this level of support is to enable clients to remain at home with as much independence as possible and to support the clients in achieving a good quality of life and improving their life outcomes. Clients’ personal preferences must be always respected.

Live-In Carers must carry out the tasks in a professional, discreet, and caring manner whilst respecting the clients’ dignity, privacy, property, and confidentiality. Live-In Carers provide personal and practical care and support services for clients with a wide range of illnesses and disabilities in their own home.

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide a Live-In care service to service users to help to enable the individual to lead as much of an independent, dignified life as possible
• The individual will be required to follow and work with the provided care plan to ensure that the needs of the service user are met
• Care duties could include the following please note this list is not exhaustive:

  I.  Personal Care: to assist with washing, bathing, showering, cleaning teeth, dressing, and undressing, help the service user to get ready for the day, hair care, continence management, personal hygiene, and care of pressure areas.

  II.  Assistance of daily aids and re-enablement aids

  III.  Assistance with re-enablement programmes as specified by healthcare professionals.

  IV.  Healthcare: Prompting and assisting with prescribed medication as required. This does not involve administering medication.

  V.  Dietary Care: Preparation of snacks and meals and assisting with meal distribution and assistance for feeding and drinking

  VI.  Domestic and Household: General domestic tasks, bed making, clearing rubbish, and washing.

The successful applicant will be:

•       Fully fluent in English
•       Second language would be desirable. We currently have various service users that require to communicate in the same language as their own.
•       Caring and considerate
•       Show Flexibility
•       Ability to work alone and part of a team as required
•       Able to build strong relationships whilst maintaining professional boundaries
•       Mature, calm, and professional approach always
•       Be prepared to travel if required.
•       Have previous experience in a caring background in a similar environment would be desirable.

Minimum Requirements

• Fluent in English
• Previous care work experience.

What we offer

If you are new to care or have very little experience, you would be placed with a lesser need’s client.

If you have more experience and skills that would be beneficial to a higher or complex needs client.

• Free enhanced DBS check
• Competitive pay
• Pension
• Qualifications/personal development
• Refer a friend scheme
• Paid holiday

Important Information.

A DBS (formerly CRB) check prior to the commencement of the role is required.

All staff are required to respect the confidentiality of all matters that they might learn in the course of their employment. All staff must respect the requirements set out in the Data Protection Act 1998. All staff must ensure that they are aware of their responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974. All staff must also ensure that they read and abide by the Code of Practice of both the United Kingdom Home Care Association (UKHCA) and the General Social Care Council (GSCC).