Adult Care Worker Apprentice
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Adult Care Worker Apprentice
Type: Apprentice
Location: Camborne (TR14 0HX)
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
Travelling from house to house, providing visits that range on average from 30 minutes to 1 hour, however some social and domestic visits may be 2+ hours.
Reading and following care plans to ensure they are fulfilling their duties to each individual.
Supporting individuals to meet their daily living needs, tasks can include, but are not limited to:
- Supporting with washing – including grooming
- Supporting with dressing
- Toileting needs and intimate hygiene – including catheter and stoma care
- Meeting nutritional and fluid needs
- Medication handling and administration
- Domestic duties
- Social Inclusion
- Safely use equipment to assist and aid mobility
- Work as a team member
- Providing emotional and well-being support
- Partnership Working with other professionals involved in individual’s care
- Use technology to support and enhance the delivery of care
- Identify and report safety or well-being concerns
Where you’ll work
1 The Setons
Tolvaddon Energy Park, Tolvaddon
Camborne
TR14 0HX
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Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Training course
Adult care worker (level 2)
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What you’ll learn
Course contents
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Ask for help from an appropriate person when not confident or skilled in any aspect of their role
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to have a choice about the way they are supported
- Encourage individuals to participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure the individual knows what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Contribute to the on-going development of care/support plans for the individual they support
- Support individuals with cognitive, physical or sensory impairments
- Ensure dignity is at the centre of all work with the individuals they support, their families, carers and advocates
- Demonstrate all work is person centred, accommodating the individual’s needs, wishes and preferences
- Demonstrate empathy (understanding and compassion) for individuals they support
- Demonstrate courage in supporting people in ways that may challenge their personal/cultural beliefs
- Speak clearly and exhibit positive non-verbal communication to individuals, families, carers and advocates
- Use the preferred methods of communication of the individual they support according to their language, culture, sensory needs and their wishes
- Identify and take steps to reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate they can check for understanding
- Write clearly and concisely in records and reports
- Keep information safe and confidential according to agreed ways of working
- Recognise potential signs of different forms of abuse
- Respond to concerns of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Recognise, report and challenge unsafe practices
- Promote the health and wellbeing of the individual they support
- Move people and objects safely
- Demonstrate how to reduce the spread of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Demonstrate the promotion of healthy eating and wellbeing by ensuring individuals have access to fluids, food and nutrition
- Demonstrate how to keep people, buildings and themselves safe and secure
- Carry out fire safety procedures when required
- Use risk assessments to support individuals safely
- Recognise symptoms of cognitive impairment, e.g. Dementia, learning disabilities and mental health
- Monitor and report changes in health and wellbeing for individuals they support
- Reflect on your own work practices
- Demonstrate the development of their own skills and knowledge, including core skills in writing, numbers and information technology
- Demonstrate their contribution to their development plan
- Demonstrate ability to work in partnership with others to support the individual
- Identify sources of support when conflicts arise with other people or organisations
- Demonstrate they can work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Show they can access and apply additional skills required to perform the specific job role competently
Training schedule
You will be working towards a Level 2 Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship standard.
Level 2 Diploma in Care.
You will receive on and off the job training and support from an Assessor and an Apprenticeship Advisor.
As part of your apprenticeship training you may be asked to attend Cornwall College Camborne, or St Austell on occasions, but the majority of delivery is remote which is one day a week.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 3/D)
- Maths (grade 3/D)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted 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
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
The successful candidate will need to have a driving licence to travel between locations in the local community. Shift pattern is negotiable, shift pattern typically range from 7am to 2pm / 4pm to 10pm
About this employer
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
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