For further information about this post please contact Ceri Cotgrove on 01758613810 or via e-mail cericotgrove@gwynedd.llyw.cymru
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package. Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.
We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually.
Purpose of the post
- Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
- Help individuals to live their lives as they wish to live.
- Take on the full care role in the home.
- Collaborate with other agencies, for the benefit of the individuals, including attending reviews, meetings with health, consulting with specialists.
- Administration of medicines.
Responsibility for functions
- Ensure appropriate use of users' property e.g., medicine and cash.
- Make appropriate use of specialist equipment to assist the individual to live his/her life as they wish to live. This includes reporting on deficiencies and following practice protocols and specialist training as required.
Main duties
- Take responsibility for the residential care home and the responsible person role when in full charge of the home, if appropriate.
- Lead staff with their work duties.
- Take decisions in the absence of managers, e.g., receive admissions back from hospital, lead in an emergency, respond to enquiries.
- Lead and respond to an emergency situation involving users and the building.
- Identify changes in the health and well-being of individuals and respond quickly and appropriately to them.
- Be progressive and willing to make informed decisions independently, while also applying professional opinion and knowing when to attract support from the wider team and other professions.
- Excel in building relationships with people to understand exactly what would make a difference to them in their lives and empower the voice of the individual at every opportunity.
- Be innovative and creative when giving care in a way that fully includes people, and enable or re-able people to take control of their own lives.
- Be a key worker for individuals attending meetings and contribute orally and in writing.
- Maintain and support the procedure for administering and distributing medicines in accordance with the service policy.
- Promote the rights of the individual and encourage them to take positive and informed risks.
- Follow an ethos that emphasises the importance of working with individuals and promoting their independence, which may include Active Support and Positive Behaviour Support.
- Develop and follow personal care plans created in partnership with the individual, to promote and encourage him/her to live as full a life as possible by making use of any resources and activities available in the community.
- Contribute to the process of assessing, monitoring, planning and implementing activities in accordance with the needs of the service user.
- Encourage and support service users to develop their social skills to enable them to live successfully within the community.
- Test new ways of supporting and think outside the box for creative answers that draw from the individual's strengths, assets and informal network.
- Contribute to multidisciplinary talks about the personal well-being outcomes of people and ways they can be supported to achieve these.
- Work with people to assist and note barriers that prevent them from achieving their outcomes, and use information to discuss with the wider team, implement change and learn from experience.
- Be responsible for maintaining all the administrative work in accordance with the guidelines set by the Service Support Manager on behalf of Cyngor Gwynedd.
- Support with housekeeping duties and preparation of light meals.
- Operate and maintain IT systems.
- Work in partnership with colleagues in the health and care field, including social workers, community psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists and physiotherapists, GPs and 3rd sector partners.
- Act on opportunities to build lives that are linked to family and community networks.
- Follow your own training programme in accordance with the National Requirements and accept responsibility for continuous professional development.
- Attend and contribute to supervision and team meetings that support the improvement of the service and staff well-being.
- Register with the Care Council for Wales and behave in a principled way in accordance with the professional code of practice for social care.
- Report any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused.
- Manage information in accordance with the Council's information management standards and guidelines, and treat personal information in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety regulations in the workplace.
- Operate within the Council's equal opportunities and equality policies.
- Fully comply with Cyngor Gwynedd's Code of Practice for Medicines, including administering medicines.
- Commit to reducing the Council's carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan.
- Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
Special circumstances
- There will be a need to go through the DBS processes.
- The need to work unsociable hours over seven days on a rota basis. This may include bank holidays and weekends as required.
- Expected to work across other service sites if necessary.
The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.
For further information about this post please contact Ceri Cotgrove on 01758613810 or via e-mail cericotgrove@gwynedd.llyw.cymru