Unit 2

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What is a care home manager?
A care home manager is responsible for the day-to-day running of residential care homes.
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Where may care home managers work?
In hospices, residential homes, supported housing - for those who have additional needs such as poor mental health, autism or dementia.
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what are the key roles and responsibilities of a care home manager?
To recruit and manage staff.

To control budgets and spending.

To ensure that services are up to the National Standard of Care.

Creating policies and procedures and ensuring that they are implemented by all staff.
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What is a Care assistant?
They are trained people who help service users carry out daily tasks in their day-today routine
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where may a care assistant work?
In service user homes.

In day care centres.

In residential Care homes.
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What are some of the roles and responsibilities of Care Assistants?
To meet personal needs such as dressing, feeding and washing

to assist in monitoring health and wellbeing by talking with other professionals

to help service users in transport, household tasks and personal tasks such as shopping
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what is a social worker?
social workers are trained to help people of all ages to find solutions to their problems in their lives.
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where may social workers work?
In social Care Centres

In service user homes

In clinics in the community
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what are some of the roles and responsibilities of a social worker?
To protect vulnerable people from abuse/ harm
help people to live independently
Support people who live apart from their families
support foster carers and adopters
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help support people with mental health issues, and disabilities
support refugees and asylum seekers
help people with drug and alcohol misuse problems and young offenders
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What is a youth worker?
They help the personal, social and educational growth of people aged 11-25, to help them reach their full potential in society
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where do youth workers work?
In youth centres

schools

colleges
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what are some roles and responsibilities of youth workers?
They manage and administer youth and community projects and resources
monitor and review the quality of local youth work provision
Work with families and carers
they support people through outreach work in issues such as drug and alcohol misuse, violence,
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what are support workers and where do they work?
They provide care support to a range of service users in the home, centres and residential care
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what are the roles and responsibilities of support workers?
Duties depend on the personal needs and wishes of the service user

support individuals comfort and wellbeing, under supervision of professionals

Help service users to live as independently as possible whilst working with families.
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Where may care home managers work?

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In hospices, residential homes, supported housing - for those who have additional needs such as poor mental health, autism or dementia.

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what are the key roles and responsibilities of a care home manager?

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What is a Care assistant?

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where may a care assistant work?

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