Job Description

Job Title

Live-in Care Worker

Reporting to

Care Manager

Summary of Job

To assist clients with the personal care and domestic tasks that they find difficult or can no longer perform for themselves and provide companionable and social support when required, according to their care plan.

Duties

Duties combine elements of housekeeping, social assistance and personal care in varying degrees according to client requirements. Assignments are assessed in line with the domestic and social duties plus the care skills set out below. Therefore, each assignment is unique in terms of the client requirements and the pay on offer.

Domestic and Social Assistance

Menu planning, shopping and meal preparation for clients and guests
Cleaning, 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
Maintaining accurate, concise and timely records

Care Skills Level One

Domestic and social assistance as above plus
Minimal assistance with getting in/out of the bath or shower, washing back, feet, etc
Minimal assistance with dressing, undressing and selection of clothes

Care Skills Level One/Two

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

Care Skills Level Two/Three

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

Care Skills Level Three/Four

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
Palliative Care

Care Skills Level Four

Domestic, social and personal care assistance as above plus
Post operative care following major surgery
End of Life Care

Your Care Skills Level

Your care skills will be assessed at interview and you will only be offered assignments up to your skills level. You will be given the opportunity to review your skills level at regular intervals. Please note that the pay on offer is determined by the assignment level and not by your skills level.

Standards

In providing services for clients, our organisation aims to comply with the Essential Standards of Quality & Safety drawn up by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). You will be expected to work with us in meeting and maintaining these Standards. In addition, we are regulated by the CQC and are reviewed and 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.

Probationary Period

There will be a twelve week probationary period from your start date of working on assignment with us.

Induction Training

You will be expected to complete our 41/2 day induction training before you start your first assignment with us. You will be paid 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 approximately every 12 weeks. You will also be required to undertake update and ongoing training. These training sessions are paid at the current 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 3 hours per day in assignments up to 3 weeks. In assignments lasting over 3 weeks, you will also have a longer break of 8 hours on one of the days each week from the third week onwards.

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.

Festive Days & Other Public Holidays

Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Spring and Autumn public holidays are paid at double the daily pay rate.

Holiday Pay

You can accrue just over 5 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 9 ¼ days worked on assignment, which is equivalent to approximately 9 ¼ days paid holiday every 12 weeks. You can take paid holiday between assignments or be paid in lieu if you leave before the end of your holiday year to go home or travelling.

Current Pay Rates

Current pay rates are between £455 and £560 PLUS holiday pay (£49.98 - £61.46) per week. From time-to-time we have higher paying specialist placements.