**Job Summary**
Support the nursing team in delivering high-quality care to residents. Key responsibilities include getting to know residents' interests and needs, promoting mobility, and enabling personal appearance/hygiene needs while maintaining dignity.
**Key Responsibilities**
* Supporting the nursing staff in delivering quality person-centred care to meet the needs of residents.
* Getting to know residents' interests and needs, providing attention, support and companionship.
* Promoting the mobility of residents, supervising and assisting as necessary to ensure optimum mobility is maintained and improved where possible.
* Enabling and assisting residents to maintain their personal appearance/hygiene needs whilst always maintaining their dignity.
* Enabling and assisting residents to eat/drink and achieve physical comfort.
* Participating, organising, and carrying out social activities.
* Sustaining a high level of communication between residents' families and staff, developing good relationships.
* Assisting in the upkeep of high standards of cleanliness in the home.
* Contributing to the maintenance of Health and Safety in the home.
**Required Skills and Qualifications**
**Qualifications/Skills:**
* Ability to work independently or as part of a team
* Ability to maintain a positive approach
* Fluent level of English both written and oral
**Benefits**
* Guaranteed hours contracts
* Free Garda Vetting
* Comprehensive induction training and continued in-house training/professional development
**Other Information**
Minimum Experience Required: 1 Year
Minimum Qualification: Level 5 (including Leaving Certificate/Leaving Certificate Applied/Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme)
Ability Skills: Communications, Interpersonal Skills