Healthcare Assistant

Role overview

TerraGlen Residential Care Services is recruiting a Healthcare Assistant for its residential care service in Longford, Ireland. This is a permanent position with a 39-hour working week. The role involves helping service users in their day-to-day lives, carrying out basic administrative duties, and supporting household tasks within the service.

What the role involves

• Encouraging and supporting service users to take part in planned activities that interest them.
• Providing personal care and helping with the day-to-day needs of the people using the service.
• Working in a way that promotes independence and community participation, in keeping with New Directions (HSE, 2012).
• Building your understanding of each service user through active listening and reflective practice to strengthen your own skills and knowledge.
• Taking on a key worker role with support and direction from senior staff.
• Working collaboratively with the wider team, sharing responsibility for workload and contributing positively to team meetings and supervision sessions with the PIC, Deputy Manager or SCL.
• Protecting confidentiality and following GDPR requirements at all times.
• Supporting the management and administration of medication in line with the medication policy.
• Communicating with multidisciplinary professionals, family members, and other relevant contacts connected to the service user.
• Completing health and safety observations and reporting any concerns as required.
• Contributing to person-centred planning meetings and other service user meetings, then following through on agreed actions and outcomes.
• Making sure service users receive appropriate support in their everyday lives.

Requirements

• A relevant healthcare or social care qualification, with QQI Level 5 as the minimum standard.
• A full, clean driving licence with at least two years of experience is desirable.
• A sincere commitment to supporting people with disabilities.

Compensation

The salary for this role is €32,691 per year.

What TerraGlen offers

• A positive, encouraging, and inclusive work environment.
• Continuous training and development based on TerraGlen’s proficiency model.
• Reflective supervision and professional support.
• Career progression opportunities within the organisation.
• Employee wellbeing support and access to structured learning.

Additional information

This is a permanent contract based in Longford, Ireland, with a 39-hour workweek. TerraGlen states that it is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fairness, dignity, and inclusion for everyone.