Care Assistant

We are currently looking for Care Assistants for our site based in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear.

The purpose of the position is:

• To actively seek to empower service users to gain and maintain control over all aspects of their lives.
• Recognise the service user’s strengths, abilities and skills and seek to maximise their development and use.
• Ensure meaningful involvement of service users is central to all activities, applying equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory policies and ensuring rights to privacy and confidentiality.
• To support service users to meet their personal care needs in a way that respects the dignity of the individual.
• To help in the care of the service users physical environment and in the general day to day activities of the Home.
• To know and support the main aims and values of the Home and understand and implement the Home’s policies and procedures.
• To work, for part of the time, on a one-to-one basis with service users who may or may not have challenging behaviour.
• To follow GSCC Codes of Conduct and Practice for Social Care Workers.