Job Detail

Goldleaf Home Care (Welwn Branch) is expanding, and we are recruiting for domiciliary care workers.

At Goldleaf, our ethos is to go above and beyond. Care means more to us than simply providing care and support. We aim to support you with the lifestyle you want, maintaining independence and dignity with your personal, domestic, and social care needs.

We provide a personalised service that is flexible and adaptable to individuals changing needs. We work together with individuals and families to maintain control over their own lives. Providing assistance, encouragement, independence, and promoting confidence in all of our clients is our main focus and priority.

Goldleaf offer more than just being a care practitioner.

• £13.50 Sunday rate
• £17.50 Bank Holiday rate
• Holiday pay, Pension, Uniforms.
• We have a dedicated in-house trainer, and
• you can progress in your role.
• We have a great team and focus on giving back to all staff to make them feel appreciated.
• We are flexible with shift pattens and only cover Welwyn and Hatfield areas unlike other franchise or bigger agencies. 
• Blue Light Card

Principal responsibilities

In line with an individual’s plan of care and support and the care worker’s training and competence:

• Help with their activities of daily living, eg getting up in the morning, going to bed at nights, dressing, undressing, washing, bathing and toilet arrangements
• Help service users overcome any mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including helping in the use and care of aids and personal equipment
• Help make a person physically comfortable by, eg making and changing beds, tidying rooms, doing light cleaning, laundry and emptying commodes where used
• Help with their eating and drinking by, eg preparing meals, snacks and drinks and helping users to eat and drink if they cannot or have difficulty in doing this by themselves
• Contribute to specialised care plans, eg for people with dementia, re-enablement or people with continence difficulties
• Help users take their prescribed medication (as specified on their care plans)
• Contribute to the care of service users who are temporarily sick and needing, eg minor dressings, bed nursing, help with feeding, etc
• Contribute as needed to a person’s end-of-life care
• Promote users’ mental and physical activity by, eg talking to them, helping them do things for themselves, prompting, taking them shopping, sharing with them in activities such as reading, writing, hobbies and recreations
• Read and write reports, and take part in staff and service users’ meetings and in training activities as directed •       comply with the service’s guidelines and policies at all times, eg in respect of dress code, wearing of identity badges, travelling and security and safeguarding of service users
• Report to the service manager any significant changes in the health or circumstances of a service user •       encourage and enable service users to remain as independent as possible
• Perform such other duties as may reasonably be required.
• Support clients with shopping trips , days out as per services users needs, this will be taking them in your car or company car.

We require candidates to:

• Be Flexible with working every other weekend
• Have their own car and driving licence.
• Have previous experience working in Homecare  
• Be self-motivated
• Be organised
• Be caring and sensitive to the needs of others and to the needs of vulnerable people
• Be an active team player but also able to work on own initiative
• Be a good communicator