Domiciliary carer

Overview

Provide personal care and support to residents in a care home on a part-time basis.

Key Responsibilities

• client escort
• dietary monitoring
• pain reporting
• hoist assistance
• linen management
• waste disposal

Tasks

-Escort clients within and, in some circumstances, outside the residence. -Ensure dietary needs are adhered to, including special diets and supplementary drinks, under the direction of the nursing staff. Report if any client is not eating/drinking. -Helping those who need help at mealtimes. -Reporting to nursing staff any complaints of pain, distress etc., from clients. -Assisting the nursing staff to turn and re-position using the appropriate aid, i.e. Hoist, sliding sheets etc. Help those who need help with walking and limb exercises as directed. -Cleaning and restocking of linen presses/wardrobes and ensuring personal clothing is in the correct locker/wardrobe. Ensure correct laundry bags are used, tied and labeled and brought to laundry. -Assisting residents with their hygiene needs, such as bathing, hair care, dressing and undressing. -Care of incontinent clients, promoting continence awareness among clients confined to bed with their toilet needs. -Toileting clients to include giving, removing, and emptying bedpans, urinals, and commodes and using bedpan washer-disinfector. -Dispose of waste, including clinical waste.

Requirements

• equipment use
• safety practices
• shift work
• english
• garda vetting
• relevant experience

What You Bring

-Knowledge of how to use the equipment necessary to carry out the assigned tasks. -Knowledge and willingness to apply safe working practices -Working pattern Monday to Sunday, day and night shifts*** -Good working knowledge of English -Garda vetting is required. -Experience in a similar role

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Benefits

-Level 5 in Care Assistant

About Neylons Facility Management

-Grew from a small cleaning outfit to a national FM leader. -Offers Integrated Facility Management across cleaning, catering, security, M&E, landscaping, asset & waste management. -Serves diverse sectors like private hospitals, schools, retail, manufacturing, assisted living, and government bodies. -Developed in-house Flex CAFM tech and their own 'Academy for Growth' staff development programme. -Alongside typical FM contracts, they’ve handled industrial cleaning in pharmaceutical and datacentre environments.

Sector Specialisms

Security Clearance

-garda vetting is required.