Lead Adult Care Worker apprentice

Summary

Cathedral View House are offering an exciting opportunity to join their dynamic team as a Lead Adult Care Worker apprentice! Gain the knowledge, skills and behaviours to kickstart your career in the Health & Social Care sector.

Annual wage

£23,634 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

Two day paid induction and onboarding. Mandatory company training is paid for. Weekly pay every Friday. You are entitled to 5.6 weeks annual leave per year pro rata.

Training course

Lead adult care worker (level 3)

Hours

Mixture of shifts over a seven-day week from Sunday to Friday. (Alternative weekends) Early shifts: 07.00-14:00 Late shifts: 14.00-21.30 Night shifts 21:00-07.30 (if applicable).

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Possible start date

Monday 13 January

Duration

1 year

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Care Assistant is one of the roles in a team that work together. This team is made up of all staff in the home; nurses, officers, senior carers, kitchen, laundry, cleaners, management, maintenance and activities to ensure that all residents needs are met (including personal hygiene, continence, fluid and nutrition, and more), their dignity is always protected while maintaining a professional relationship.

Care Assistants are to encourage independence, ensure privacy and respect
Care Assistants help create a safe environment where residents feel comfortable, supported and empowered to live their life to the best of their ability
As a Care Assistant you will be supported by your senior carer on shift and supervised by the nurse in charge
Care Assistants are expected to provide and maintain the highest standard of care in accordance with policies, aims and objectives of Cathedral View

Where you’ll work

Cathedral View House

Kenwyn Church Road

Truro

TR1 3DR

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

CORNWALL COLLEGE

Your training course

Lead adult care worker (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
Take the initiative when working outside normal duties and responsibilities
Recognise and access help when not confident or skilled in any aspect of the role that they are undertaking
Implement/facilitate the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory and physical impairments
Contribute to the development and ongoing review of care/support plans for the individuals they support
Provide individuals with information to enable them to exercise choice on how they are supported
Encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
Ensure that individuals know what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
Lead and support colleagues to understand how to establish informed consent when providing care and support
Guide, mentor and contribute to the development of colleagues in the execution of their duties and responsibilities
Demonstrate dignity in their working role with individuals they support, their families, carers and other professionals
Support others to understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in social care
Exhibit empathy for individuals they support, i.e. understanding and compassion
Exhibit courage in supporting individuals in ways that may challenge their own cultural and belief systems
Demonstrate and promote to other workers excellent communication skills including confirmation of understanding to individuals, their families, carers and professionals
Use and facilitate methods of communication preferred by the individual they support according to the individual’s language, cultural and sensory needs, wishes and preferences
Take the initiative and reduce environmental barriers to communication
Demonstrate and ensure that records and reports are written clearly and concisely
Lead and support others to keep information safe, preserve confidentiality in accordance with agreed ways of working
Support others, to recognise and respond to potential signs of abuse according to agreed ways of working
Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to concerns of abuse
Lead and support others to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and duty of care
Recognise, report, respond to and record unsafe practices and encourage others to do so
Lead and mentor others where appropriate to promote the wellbeing of the individuals they support
Demonstrate the management of the reduction of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
Promote healthy eating and wellbeing by supporting individuals to have access to fluids, food and nutrition
Carry out fire safety procedures and manage others to do so
Develop risk assessments and use in a person centred way to support individuals safely including moving and assisting people and objects
Manage, monitor, report and respond to changes in the health and wellbeing of the individuals they support
Take the initiative to identify and form professional relationships with other people and organisations
Demonstrate, manage and support self and others to work within safe, clear professional boundaries
Take the initiative to evaluate and improve own skills and knowledge through reflective practice, supervision, feedback and learning opportunities
Demonstrate continuous professional development
Carry out research relevant to individuals’ support needs and share with others
Demonstrate where necessary mentoring and supervision to others in the workplace
Demonstrate good team/partnership working skills
Demonstrate their contribution to robust recruitment and induction processes

Your training plan

The Apprenticeship Standard is Level 3 Lead Adult Care Worker.
You will be required to attend St Austell College a day a week as part of your apprenticeship training. You will receive on and off-the-job training and support from an assessor and an Apprenticeship Advisor.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4/C)
Maths (grade 4/C)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

Applicants will need to reliably commute to work. Consider public transport links depending on where you are based. Onsite car parking.

About this company

Cathedral View House is a provider of high quality residential & nursing Care. They are registered for a number of dementia patients. They are privately owned, run by trained nursing staff and health care staff. Two homes set in beautiful private grounds in a quiet area of Truro.

http://www.cathedralviewcare.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Senior care opportunities.

A lot of our previous apprentices have gone on to complete their nurse training and other professional routes through university. They then have come back to work with us in their profession.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CORNWALL COLLEGE

Holly

01209616452

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000289902.

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Closes in 18 days (Wednesday 8 January at 11:59pm)

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