Careworker Visa
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Working in the care industry is a rewarding job, where you become a big part of your patient’s lives. You need to have a passion for looking after others and making a difference in their everyday life. To some patients, you may be the only person they see each day, so it’s important to approach every day with a positive outlook and sensitivity. This is why it is important that when applying for the position as a care worker, your communication skills come naturally, and empathy and compassion can be provided easily.
Becoming someone’s career can feel invasive to your patient when they are vulnerable. Therefore you need to be able to approach every situation with sensitivity, understanding, and compassion.
The typical working hours for a carer is 40 hours per week. This can be completed in varying lengths of shifts, day and night. As a carer, you need to be flexible and accept longer shifts if needed.
Daily Tasks as a Career
You will have to assist them with bathing, taking them to the toilet, getting dressed, grooming, and medical care that involves dressing their wounds. All of these daily tasks should be approached without letting your patient feel ashamed or embarrassed.
Providing your patients with healthy meals that are suited to them is important to make sure that they are eating properly, and have access to food when needed. Preparing meals in bulk may be necessary if your patient is able to access food without assistance.
Some patients may request to be helped with their shopping. This will be completed with a finance form and a receipt as proof of purchase. You may also need to post letters and help your patient pay their bills on time.
It is important to assist with mobility, this may be helping them stand and walk, or the use of a hoist and other aids to help keep your patient as mobile as possible.
When requested, completing daily chores such as cleaning the house and washing dishes and clothes may be required. As well as ensuring that the patient is living healthily and hygienically. This involves making sure their environment is warm and comfortable with working equipment
You will need to keep a log book, where you record each visit, and provide care plan updates, as well as completing a MAR chart for their medication.
Promoting independence is required to ensure that the patient is doing as much as they can for themselves so that they can keep those key skills. It is imperative to ensure that your patient lives as independently as possible without assistance.
You will need to complete safeguarding in the event that you believe that your patient is in danger, such as abuse, neglect, and whistle-blowing.
Having a driving license is preferred, as this will allow you to take them to any doctor’s appointments, or take them out to enjoy their day if this is possible for your patient.
Key soft skills are:
- A good career is passionate about the quality of care they provide and the needs of their patients.
- Empathy, patience, and compassion.
- Being Positive and encouraging.
- Reliable and respectful of choices.
- Being observant with excellent communication skills
- Able to multitask and think on your feet when problem-solving.
- Driving a license makes daily tasks easier and more time efficient.
- Respect and dignity for your patient.
- Conducting phone calls.
- Attention to detail.
- The ability to keep calm and level-headed in stressful situations.
Key hard skills :
- Knowledge of regulatory practices.
- Chart requirements.
- State survey readiness.
- Knowledge of healthcare computer systems and databases.
- How to analyse patient data.
- Monitoring vital signs and behaviours.
Knowing when to get in contact with your superior. - Safe Guarding.
- Working longer shifts when required and coping with stress.
First Aid trained
Seeing change is part of the daily routine of becoming a carer. Your patient’s needs will change over time, which will alter the hours that you work. This is something you need to be aware of as part of your lifestyle of being a carer.
The ability to think on your feet and adapt to different scenarios is one of the most important skills as a carer. Patients may develop different medical needs and allergies, requiring an attentive nature, as doing so could result in saving a life.
Spotting signs of deterioration, low moods, loss of appetite, irritability, and confusion will benefit your patient’s health. Being observant of these changes that are happening will have a better outcome for your patient.
As a carer, you need to have high spirits when visiting your patients to lift their mood and make them more cooperative when they are going through low moods and being uncooperative. Being positive towards your patients will help build a better relationship and make them feel comfortable and brighten their mood as well.
You need to have high levels of compassion and good listening skills. Often older people feel unheard, so it is important to communicate carefully with your patients and respect their wishes and preferences. You may be the only person that they see that day and feel heard by. You will need to be very attentive and empathetic towards your patients, this will help with spotting depression, anxiety and any other illnesses. It is important that you will be able to cope with providing this amount of emotional support day in and day out, and that you have your own support network of your own to keep up your performance at work.
How will we assist you with becoming a career?
Working in the care sector is an incredibly rewarding job, so it’s no wonder that it is one of the most commonly spoken about reasons to be a carer. Everyday you will be making a difference to someone’s quality of life, supporting them to remain living in their own home, independently.
We will train you , coach you to become a Helping Hand as a carer, you will be trained to have following attributes :
1. A compassionate nature and good communication skills.
2. The passion to really make a difference to someone’s life.
3. To prepare you for interview with the employer to confidently answer the interviewer of the role of carer
4. Well versed with English, both spoken and written.
5. To have a complete adherence of compliances.