Role: Care Staff, Day Services

Duration of the post: Permanent Full Time (39 hours per week)

Location: West and South Dublin, Kildare and Meath.

Reporting Relationship: Director of Care, Day Services

Job Purpose:

The role and responsibility of Care Staff includes the following: to train, provide support and encourage service users to participate fully in their work, activation, training and education programmes.

Scope of the Role:

The Care Staff is a member of the Day Services Department and will deliver care in conjunction with the wider multidisciplinary team and other relevant agencies.

Remuneration:

Current Salary Scale: €30,755- €43,909 LSI (Care Assistant Intellectual Disability Salary Scale), Your salary is paid monthly (16th unless when 16th falls on Saturday or Sunday you are paid on the Friday prior to the 16th) by direct credit transfer into any Bank or Building Society of your choice where the paypath system operates. Salaries and increments are paid in accordance with DOH salary scales

Annual Leave: 22 Days per annum

Working Week:

The hours allocated to this post are 39 hours exclusive of lunch breaks. The allocation of these hours will be at the discretion of the Director of Care and in accordance with the needs of the service.

Probation:

All employees will be subject to a probationary period of 6 months, with an extension if required to 9 months. This probationary period applies to all employees irrespective of their role or type of role.

Garda Vetting:

Stewarts will carry out Garda vetting on all new employees. An employee will not take up employment with the organisation until the Garda Vetting process has been completed and the organisation is satisfied that such an appointment does not pose a risk to the service users and employees.

References:

Stewarts will seek up to two written references from current and previous employers, educational institutions or any other organisation with which the candidate has been associated. Stewarts reserves the right to determine the merit, appropriateness and relevance of such references and referees.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

General Duties

• Assist Team Members in the delivery of appropriate services to those attending Day Services, having due regard for their safety and the safety of others, both on and off the premises, including outdoor activities.
• Support service users in conjunction with Person Centred Planning (PCP) to set personal goals develop and carry out a plan to achieve these goals.
• Listen to their wishes and support them to advocate for themselves; while encouraging them to take responsibility for decisions in their day to day lives.
• Support the service user to carry out a swimming programme, which will include entering the pool.
• Act as a key worker for the service user. (A member of staff appointed to assist and support individuals to achieve their goals. The keyworker is the central point of contact for the individual and for families)
• Personal assistance for service users in the areas of personal needs including Intimate care.
• Work as part of a team in contributing to the design and further development of the Day Services Programme in line with New Directions.
• Have responsibility for running various aspects of the day programme and recording activities on the electronic information management system.
• Responsibility of the development of individualised programme of activity for a service user/s
• Use a flexible approach to help meet service user’s individual needs.

For more details view the full job description in the Additional Information section below.