Apprentice Care Centre Support Worker

Woodland Care Home is a small residential nursing home near Macclesfield town centre that looks after 23 elderly people who require support with aspects of daily living.

Duties include:

• Provide patients with help with personal hygiene by giving baths and showers, shampoos and shaves, and assisting with travel to the bathroom
• Provide help by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary, providing fresh water/drinks and nourishment between meals
• Help to maintain patient stability by checking weights and body mass, testing urine, recording intake and output information
• Provide residents comfort by helping residents to move around, answering patients calls, reporting observations of the patient to the nurse in charge
• Documenting actions by completing forms, reports, logs and records; maintain work operations by following policies and procedures. Protect organisation’s value by keeping patient information confidential
• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities and mandatory training provided by the company