When I first started my role as care assistant, I received an induction training course, which familiarised myself with the role. Part of my induction was to read and understand the company's policy and procedures, which I am then responsible to follow . My role involves me, participating in the day to day running of a residential home and to provide advice and information to the people I support. Working as part of a team, and maintaining effective communication is also required in my role. Ensuring physical and emotional needs of residents are met and to promote the health and safety of those people I support, are also important in my care worker role.
My role as a carer requires following the policies and procedures and code of practice. It makes me responsible for every task I undertake therefore I must be always sure that I’m trained enough and physically able to provide professional service to my service users. Those rules protect me and individuals using the care service. | Understand support available for addressing dilemmas that may arise about duty of care |
Legislations and procedures are constantly changing and it is important to maintain your knowledge and keep it correct. I am responsible for the children hygiene and to keep them healthy, to respect the safety rules and to prevent and avoid the dangerous
I have a duty of care to myself, my colleagues and the person I am caring for or anyone else affected by my actions. I would do this by attending regular team meetings, keep my training up to date, wearing protective clothing at all times whilst giving the clients care and disposing of it correctly, reading the care plan to ensure the correct care is given, recording everything whilst in the clients property and reporting anything that concerns me to the senior carer or manager. Understand support available for addressing dilemmas that may arise about duty of care As a domiciliary care worker I may experience many dilemmas. I would aim to help people live independently in their own homes and encourage them to make decisions for themselves. If I feel the decision the individual makes would cause harm to themselves, myself or any other being I am them faced with a dilemma.
INTRODUCTION TO DUTY OF CARE IN HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE 1.1 As a care worker, you have a legal obligation to adopt a ‘duty of care’ approach towards the people within your service. You are required to work in the best interests of the people using the service which includes maintaining their safety and wellbeing. 1.2 It is important to carry out duties that are in own job description and that you are competent. It is also necessary to regularly update own knowledge and skills in order to uphold and provide the care standards that are in accordance with the codes of practice of the care setting. This includes the use of any available resources such as hoists for the moving of residents and ensuring training is up to date by attending all relevant courses.
Safeguarding and protecting the service user is very important part in the care sector I have a duty of care to the service user and to the organisation to make sure that any accidents, concerns or incidents that may take place and put the individual or you at risk to be reported to my line manager using the appropriate method as stated in the employees handbook. I also have to ensure that all daily activities and written based records are accurate and are up to date. The sharing of information with other professionals involved in the provision of care is also very important. I liaise with other professionals from different disciplines. These include people such as: Social Workers, Physiotherapist and Nurses etc.
Thompson (2009) suggests that supervision is a process through which an organization empowers staff to meet organizational objectives, which involves a number of tasks from monitoring work tasks and workloads to ensuring legal and organizational requirements and policies are adhered to. Ensuring that Health and safety legislation is adhered to is an example of how the SCA operates within the role of supervisor, making sure that junior care staff are made aware of residents mobility needs by referring them to the relevant risk assessments, important too is the need to ensure that staff are aware of the correct use of all equipment used to transfer residents including safety checks prior to use and the appropriate method for storing said equipment after use, it is the supervisors responsibility to inform and instruct staff where there is evidence of uncertainty or misunderstanding of the correct health and safety
It is important to do this practise, so you can see how well you are considering the persons needs, and how you can do the best job you can, to always give good personal care. Circumstances within care are always changing, so reflective practise ensures that high standards are kept at all times. 1.3. Standards inform reflective practise, because they effect how I work on a day to day basis. I have to always be aware of these standards, and understand the impact on people, if I don’t work towards them.
One form of this communication is a verbal handover at the beginning and end of each shift, there is also the filling in of relevant communication books and care plans for each of the individuals you care for, this keeps others in the knowledge of the current situation in the work place with service users. The individuals you care for will communicate with you, their carers, to express their needs and preferences. 1.2 – Explain how effective communication affects all aspects of own work… Communication is an essential part of my job, it is the foundation of everything I do in work and effects every aspect of my job, it also effects those I work with, whether it be colleagues, management, parents of service users or professionals. I need to communicate with people all the time in order to care for my service users affectively. Most importantly are the service users, then
Describe the duties and responsibilities of your role. Look at relevant standards and the expectations about your own role. (1.1, 1.2) ANSWER: The specific duties and responsibilities of my job are depending on my role and employer I am working for. I am working for a large employer and I had a period of induction (-a formal briefing and familiarisation for someone start at an organisation), where I learned about: • The policies and procedures of the organisation • How the structures work • The people who are my managers and supervisors. The duties and responsibilities required by my employer are not the only requirements of working in social care.