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Job Description
Standards
Our organisation aims to meet the National Domiciliary Care Standards in providing services for clients. You will be expected to work with us in meeting and maintaining these Standards. In addition, we are regulated by the Commission for Social Care Inspection and are inspected by them on a regular basis.
Terms of Engagement
Our terms of engagement provide for a contract to exist between you and Oxford Aunts for the period of each assignment that you may undertake.
Skills Level
Your skills will be assessed at interview and you will only be offered assignments up to your designated level. You will be given the opportunity to review your skills level at regular intervals.
Induction Training
You will be expected to complete our four day induction training before you start your first assignment with us. You will be paid a lunch allowance and an allowance towards your travel costs for getting from your UK base to our offices.
Client Assessment & Review
We undertake a home visit and carry out an assessment of needs and a health and safety risk assessment for all clients before placing any care workers with them. These assessments are reviewed on a regular basis or according to changing requirements.
Ongoing Training & Supervision
You will be supervised on a one-to-one basis every 12 weeks. You will also be required to undertake ongoing training, followed by a peer group supervision session, every 12 weeks. These sessions last for a total of three hours and are paid at an hourly rate plus reasonable travel costs.
Duration of Assignments
Short-term assignments range from 48 hours to one or two weeks. Longer-term assignments can last for up to 12 weeks or longer.
Hours of Work
You will be working for seven days per week and can expect to be available to the client for between 10 and 12 hours per day, although the work will not be fully demanding for the whole of this period.
Time Off
You can expect to have a break of 2 to 3 hours per day in assignments up to 2 weeks plus a longer break of 8 / 9 hours on one of the days each week in longer assignments.
Payment Times and Method
Your pay will be calculated as a daily rate and will be paid each week on receipt of a signed timesheet by the BACS system direct to your bank account.
Tax and National Insurance
We will make all the necessary deductions for tax and national insurance from your pay.
Public Holidays
Festive public holidays are paid at double the daily pay rate.
Holiday Pay
You can accrue up to 4 weeks paid holiday per year, depending on how long you work for us. This means that you will accrue one day's paid holiday for every 12 days worked on assignment, which is equivalent to one week's paid holiday every 12 weeks. You can take paid holiday between assignments or be paid in lieu when you leave to go home or travelling.
Current Pay Rates
Current pay rates are between £385 and £486 per week PLUS holiday pay. From time to time we have specialist placements paying up to £521 plus holiday pay per week.
Duties
Duties usually combine elements of housekeeping, social assistance and personal care in varying degrees according to client requirements. Therefore, each position is unique in terms of the pay on offer and the required skills and aptitude. However, as a general guide positions can include:-
Domestic and Social Assistance
- Menu planning, shopping and meal preparation for clients and guests
- Light domestic duties plus personal laundry and ironing
- Pet care, plant care and light gardening
- Correspondence, arranging a social diary and receiving visitors
- Driving and assisting the client to use public transport
- Attending social outings and visiting family and friends
- Attending places of worship
- Money management
Level One Skills
- Domestic and social assistance as above plus
- Minimal assistance with getting in and out of the bath or shower, washing back, feet, etc.
- Minimal assistance with dressing, undressing and selection of clothes
Level One/Two Skills
- Domestic, and social assistance as above plus
- Prompts to take medication as per care plan
- Responding to night calls for general reassurance
- Assistance with washing and bathing or showering
- Assistance with dressing, undressing and selection of clothes
- Assistance with oral hygiene, shaving, hair care and personal grooming
- Assistance to use the toilet and adjust clothing
- Minimal assistance with mobilising and transferring
Level Two/Three Skills
- Domestic, social and personal care assistance as above plus
- Dealing with a slight degree of memory loss
- Responding to night calls for care needs
- Assistance with medication as per care plan
- Post operative care following elective surgery
- Full assistance with washing and bathing or showering
- Full assistance with dressing, undressing and selection of clothes
- Full assistance with oral hygiene, shaving, hair care and personal grooming
- Full assistance with manual handling excluding hoists
- Preventative pressure area care
Level Three/Four Skills
- Domestic, social and personal care assistance as above plus
- Full assistance with toilet care including incontinence
- Full assistance with manual handling including hoists
- Basic catheter care
- Pressure area care for immobile clients
- Dealing with memory loss
- Dealing with frustration and irritation
- Dealing with anxiety and agitation
- Basic stoma care
- Dealing with profound dementia
Level Four Skills
- Domestic, social and personal care assistance as above plus
- Post operative care following major surgery
- Terminal/Palliative care
