Social Care Worker CCOI Dunshane. Irlanda

The Social Care Worker shall be responsible for the following:

Advocacy & Rights

1 Respect each person who uses the services as an equal citizen.

2 Uphold and respect the human, legal and constitutional rights of each person who uses the service, recognising their individuality and equality, and empowering them to grow, thereby achieving the highest possible level of personal autonomy.

3 Facilitate, encourage and develop the choice and decision-making skills of people who use the services.

4 Facilitate, encourage and develop the self-advocacy skills of and opportunities for involvement in advocacy for people who use services.

5 Enable each individual supported by the services to pursue and maintain their individual hobbies and interests.

6 Foster, encourage and develop the self-help and social skills of each individual supported by the services so as to achieve the greatest degree of autonomy possible.

7 Facilitate each individual supported by the services to actively participate and integrate into the community, through the use of generic community facilities.

Person Centred Support for Living

8 Ensure a person centred approach to service delivery

9 In the context of the individual person centred plans support people who use the service with aspects of individual and group service responses including:

Occupation and leisure activities

Communication

Behaviour support plans

Independent living skills

Social Integration and the use of community facilities

Personal Care

Personal Development

10 Act as a Key Worker for specific individuals.

11 In consultation with the individual take the lead in developing and implementing person centred plans for those individuals for whom you act as key worker and ensure that the needs identified are appropriately addressed and participate in residents reviews as required.  

12 Ensure all medical appointments are coordinated and supported.

13 Ensure a healthy and nutritious diet is offered and takes individual choice into account.

14 Develop and implement appropriate training, leisure, social, and personal activities for individuals within the service area.

15 Facilitate individuals to actively participate and integrate into the community, through the use of generic community facilities.

16 Ensure that all behaviour support plans that are put in place by the Multidisciplinary Team are carried out and adhered to.

17 Foster, encourage and develop the self-help and social skills of each person so as to achieve the highest possible degree of personal autonomy.

18 Ensure that people who use the service have an awareness of required personal hygiene and personal appearance standards and support them in attaining such standards. This may include the participation in and support of individualised personal hygiene programmes including personal care.

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