Find out more about working as a live-in Nurse for Alma Safe Care Ltd
What does live-in care work involve?
Live-in care with Alma Safe Care Ltd can be extremely rewarding and valuable work.
You will live with the Service User in their home making sure that they are clean and warm, safe, comfortable, well fed and happy. Your tasks will include companionship, cooking, housekeeping and personal care, including washing and dressing.
How does it work?
Live-in care is round the clock, seven days a week. Our Home Care Nurses normally work for several weeks at a time, followed by one or two weeks leave. The duration will normally depend on the level and amount of care being provided.
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Earnings are calculated on an individual basis, depending upon the individual needs of the Service User. You can expect to earn between 350 and 550 pounds per week. You will receive free board and lodgings with the Service User, and in most cases you will also receive food and transport costs.
What are a Home Care Nurse's duties?
Companionship
You may be required to read to, sit with, and accompany the Service User on walks or visits. Contrastingly, they may prefer you to give them some space and to remain on standby until a task needs doing.
Shopping and handling money
You may be delegated all or part of household expenditure. If you are asked to do the weekly shopping, you should keep all receipts and maintain a record of everything spent. A book will be provided for this purpose.
Preparing food and cooking meals
You may be asked to prepare meals as a joint task between you and the Service User or as your sole responsibility.
Pet care
It is a normal part of your duty to feed pets and to give them some exercise each day, provided the animals are docile and house-trained.
Housework
It is part of your duties to ensure that the house is clean and tidy. This includes cleaning bedrooms, bathroom, and toilets, as well as the kitchen and rooms in which the Service User spends the day. You should not be asked to do heavy cleaning such as scrubbing carpets, cleaning outside windows and washing curtains.
Driving
Many of our Home Care Nurses can drive and have a current driving license. However, our responsibility is limited to confirming that a Home Care Nurse has a current clean driving licence during interview and induction. If an individual wishes for their Home Care Nurse to drive their car it is at their risk and expense.
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| Become a valued companion |
-Personal Care Duties
Dressing, undressing, washing and bathing
You may be required to help with dressing, undressing and choosing the right clothes for the Service User.
You may also help with washing, from helping individuals into and out of the bath, to giving bed baths and dealing with incontinence. Whilst doing so you must strive to uphold the Service User’s dignity and privacy.
Care of teeth and hair
You should also be able to help with oral hygiene and care of hair, make-up, shaving etc.
Assisting with mobility
Home Care Nurses may use a range of equipment to help with the Service User’s mobility including: portable or fixed hoists, turntables, sliding boards and slings.
Skin and pressure area care
You will work to ensure that the Service User’s skin is kept in as good a condition as possible between visits from the community nursing service.
Bladder and bowel incontinence
You may be required to deal with the consequences of bladder and bowel incontinence, or to work with all items of equipment regularly used in bladder and bowel care, such as colostomy, ileostomy or catheter bags.
Assisting with medicines
All Home Care Nurses receive training on medication, including assessments of competence and current good practice.
Usually, Home Care Nurses may help the Service User to follow doctors’ directions, provided they have active consent. Written consent will be provided by the Service User if they wish you to help with taking medication.
Home Care Nurse staff are not permitted to administer medication to Service Users unless specifically qualified and trained to do so. In most cases, care staff will only be responsible for prompting or reminding Service Users to take medication but the Service User must actually take the medication themselves.
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Training
As a Live-in Nursing Care Agency, we employ only qualified, registered nurses as Home Care Nurses. All of our Home Care Nurses receive an initial training and induction course, however, regardless of their previous experience and qualifications.
The training adheres to National Standards and complements their nursing training, equipping tyou with the skills and outlook to work efficiently and effectively as a live-in Home Care Nurse.
Moving and handling, health and safety and adult protection training updates are regularly provided.
Specialist training is provided for Home Care Nurses working with more specialised cases.
Our Expectations
At Alma Safe Care we take our recruitment process seriously and aim to maintain high standards of service. We have high expectations of our care staff - they represent us and our standards.
An Alma Safe Care Home Care Nurse must be compassionate, caring and patient. Live-in care is a demanding job and you must have the integrity and resilience to cope in challenging situations. Life as a Home Care Nurse requires you to be adaptable and reliable with a positive outlook and practical attitude. Being patient and understanding the Service User and their behaviour is a key aspect for being a good Home Care Nurse. You should aim at all times to respect the dignity, privacy, choice and independence of the individual you are caring for.
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| Allow life-long couples to remain at home together |
Our Support
At Alma Safe Care, it is our policy to offer a rewarding and supportive experience to all our staff.
We provide full continuous support for our care staff. We will visit you regularly throughout your stay. We are also contactable 24/7 should you require any assistance, advice or comfort. We regularly ask for feedback to be sure that we are doing everything we can to help and support you in your work.
All Home Care Nurses will have the opportunity to remain in regular contact with a health professional from their native country to discuss any problems or queries more comfortably in their own language.
Each Home Care Nurse will be appointed a Care Mentor - an individual with extensive experience as a live-in Home Care Nurse. The mentor is there to offer guidance, support and the benefit of their experiences whenever the Home Care Nurse needs it.
We encourage our care staff to participate in advanced training courses, offering specialist knowledge so you can be sure you are fully prepared when working with our Service Users. We also encourage our care staff to undertake SVQ qualifications for further personal and professional development.
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