Position Description – Personal Carer
Purpose:
- Provides safe and quality consumer-centered care that supports consumers to live the best life they can.
Mandatory Qualifications:
- Certificate III or Certificate IV in Individual Support Services
Responsible to: The Clinical Manager
Main Responsibilities:
- To have knowledge of and provide services in line with the Aged Care Quality Standards.
- To follow and act in accordance with the Aged Care Code of Conduct.
- Contributes to the efficient utilization of resources for safe and quality care.
- Consistently delivers safe, quality consumer-centered care that supports consumers’ health, safety and well-being and is inclusive of their identity,
culture and diversity.
- Implements and monitors Consumer Risk Management Plans to support consumers to take risks to enable them to live the best life they can.
- Timely and appropriate communication with the supervisory nurse: when
exceptions to consumer care plans occurs if a consumer’s health status rapidly declines or where a consumer’s safety is compromised.
- Ensures timely and appropriate action in response to incidents, comments and complaints including timely and appropriate communication with the team leader or supervisory nurse.
- Completes accurate documentation for the consumer care including charting and reporting in the progress notes, incident reports.
- Attending to resident ADL’s as per care plan.
Physical Duties:
- Feeding residents
- Supervising/prompting residents who can self-feed
- Mobilising residents. Including:
• Pushing wheelchair
• pushing regency chair
• Holding walk-belt whilst resident walks
• Guiding residents when they use their walking aids
- Transferring residents. Including:
• Use of mechanical hoist
• Use of sara steady
• Use of standing hoist
• Use of walk belts
• Stand transfers
- Turning non-mobile residents. Including
• Use of slide sheets
• Rolling residents from side to side
- Dressing/undressing residents. Including
• Maneuvering residents with lifting limbs, rolling, using aids to lift residents to assist in dressing
• Full physical assistance to dress/undress
• Partial assistance for residents who can attend to some tasks themselves
- Checking/changing continence aids. Including
• Maneuvering residents with lifting limbs, rolling, using aids to lift residents to assist in checking/changing continence aids
• Leaning to clean up peri/anal areas during times of continence aid changes
- Showering/washing residents. Including
• Bending, stretching, leaning, twisting to ensure all residents body parts are clean. Some residents require more assistance than others
- Toileting residents. Including
• Leaning, bending, stretching, twisting to ensure residents are clean following toileting
- Grooming residents which may include forms of bending, crouching, stretching
- Making beds which involves leaning across the bed and twisting/stretching to apply linen
- Preparing snacks/drinks for residents which can involve boiling water
- Pushing trolley to hand out afternoon tea/meals for residents eating in their room
- Clearing tables following meals
*All of the above mentioned tasks are to be carried out with correct manual handling procedures that staff receive training in.
Performance appraisal: at 3 months, 6 months, then annually and as requested by employer/employee.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Maintains own knowledge and skills for safe care/services by completing annual mandatory training and competence assessments related to your role participating in ongoing education sessions and tool-box training and reading notice boards, newsletters, and memos.
- Annual training objectives are completed following performance appraisal to ensure you have the right skills and knowledge to perform your role.