Lead Adult care Worker Level 3 apprentice
Old Hastings House
HASTINGS, TN34 3ET
Closes in 23 days (Friday 28 February at 11:59pm)
Posted on 31 January 2025
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Summary
As a Senior Carer, you will play a key role in leading the care team, ensuring the highest standards of care and support for our residents. You will work closely with residents, families, and colleagues to promote dignity, independence, and well-being.
- Wage
- £9,984 to £17,846.40 a year
- Training course
- Lead adult care worker (level 3)
- Hours
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Normally a 2 or 4 week rota to include every other weekend. Shifts to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Saturday 1 March
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- Administer medication safely and accurately
- Assist with personal care, mobility, and daily activities
- Complete and maintain care plans and documentation
- Support residents’ emotional and social well-being
- Mentor and train junior staff to uphold best practices
- Ensure compliance with CQC regulations and company policies
Where you’ll work
OLD HASTINGS HOUSE
HIGH STREET
HASTINGS
TN34 3ET
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
ACACIA TRAINING LIMITED
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
- Lead Adult Care Worker Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
- Apprentice will consist of on the job training in house, supported by Acacia training, the training provider
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Other in:
- Adult Care (grade Level 2)
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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Applicants must have the right values understands dignity, respect, care and commitment to training.
About this company
Priding itself on its family atmosphere, Old Hastings House has fine views across Hastings Old Town and is located within walking distance of local shops and amenities. A resident handbook specific to the part of the home the new resident resides is made available on admission. This Information Book aims to provide you with all the background information in respect of the care that you will receive at Old Hastings House, together with information about the services offered within the home.
After this apprenticeship
- Permanent position within the company
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACACIA TRAINING LIMITED
Helena Brennan
Helenab@acaciatraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000299790.
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Closes in 23 days (Friday 28 February at 11:59pm)
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