Lead Adult Care Worker Apprentice

Summary

Lending Hands In Care Ltd are offering an exciting opportunity to join their team as an Apprentice Lead Adult Care Worker. You will gain experience in supervision, frontline leadership, the guidance and direction of staff, judgement and accountability.

Annual wage: £30,680 a year
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Training course: Lead adult care worker (level 3)
Hours: Shifts will be 09:00 - 17:00 Monday - Wednesday or Wednesday - Friday and every other weekend
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 13 January
Duration: 1 year 6 months
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

Client Assessments and Reviews: Conducting assessments with new service users and conducting regular reviews with existing clients
Support Plans and Documentation: Preparing support plans, care plans, and all necessary documents for service users' folders, ensuring accuracy and compliance
Stakeholder Communication: Building and maintaining relationships with company stakeholders, hospital teams, social workers, doctors, and nurses
Initiating and Managing Care Packages: Starting and overseeing new care packages
Rota Management: Preparing the rota every two weeks
Training and Supervision: Training senior support workers and key colleagues, allocating and supervising their work and development
Liaison with Social Workers: Liaising with social workers regarding current service users
Issue Handling and Reporting: Handling issues and concerns, collaborating with the social workers and to resolve challenging situations
Covering Calls: Providing coverage for care calls and participating in on-call duties as needed
Professional Representation: Representing the company in a professional manner

Where you’ll work

Victoria Road

Roche

Victoria, St Austell

Cornwall

PL26 8LG

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

Apprenticeship Standard Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care
Mandatory qualifications (e.g. First Aid): Apprentices will be given mandatory training in First Aid, Moving and Handling, Health and Safety, Equality and Diversity, Fire Safety, Infection Control, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Food Hygiene, Mental Capacity, Safe Administration of Medication and Care Certificate
Apprentices will also be encouraged to undertake any additional training that will enhanced their CPD
You will be required to attend St Austell College a day a week as part of your apprenticeship training

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

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

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

Care (grade Pass)

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
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Analytical skills
Team working
Patience

Other requirements

The successful candidate will need to have a driving licence / There is car parking available at the office.

About this company

Lending Hands in Care Ltd is a home care service provider operating in Cornwall, offering a range of personalized care services to support individuals in their own homes. Their services include: personal care, dementia care, care for older adults (65+), care for younger adults (under 65), support for individuals with physical disabilities and assistance for those with sensory impairments

Company benefits

Company pension

After this apprenticeship

There may be the opprtunity for permanent full time employment for the successful candidate upon completion of this apprenticeship

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