Care Assistant

At Golden Atara, we value all our staff and are dedicated to their well-being! We are a friendly team in Oxfordshire, and we would love you to be part of it! Our roles are rewarding, knowing that you have provided such important care for many elderly and vulnerable people in the community.

General scope

To manage the delivery of care and support services for the company in line with legislative requirements and ensure the service maintains financial viability.

Your responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day running of the domiciliary care service, ensuring standards of care and schedule of visits to clients are maintained, in line with CQC standards.
• Ensure accurate, concise, and timely records of care given and other administrative documents relating to the provision of care and support.
• Lead and develop your team leaders, to ensure they manage rotas, communicate to the team to ensure they are fully conversant with their duties, and take appropriate action to remedy any unsatisfactory performance.
• Ensure effective management of care packages, from referral through to assessment, quality assurance monitoring, ongoing review, and termination of care packages.
• Understand responsibilities in relation to providing care and support, adhering to health and safety, food hygiene, fire precautions and emergency procedures, infection control and emergency aid, and other business policies.
• Ensure the safeguarding of all clients through adherence to relevant legislation, procedures, and codes of practice relating to care, health and safety, food hygiene, fire precautions and emergency procedures, infection control, and emergency first aid.
• Active participation in training to ensure personal development and to build knowledge and competence relative to the role. Ensure employees are enrolled in relevant training courses and this is kept up to date and where applicable provide training to care staff 
• Conduct Sport check for all care activities and audits for all care staff day-to-day activities. 
• To develop and maintain effective relationships with external agencies to ensure services are delivered effectively.
• Take responsibility for identifying and resolving non-compliance.
• Manage the financial viability of each package.
• Provide out-of-hours emergency assistance by participating in the on-call rota.
• Provide field support for the creation of each geographical location run.

This list of duties and responsibilities is by not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake other relevant and appropriate duties as reasonably required.