Our home care staff can help you with a range of
personal care.
This can include:
- Assistance with getting up and going to bed
- Assistance with washing, bathing, showering, shaving, make
up
- Assistance with getting dressed and undressed
- Assistance with going to the toilet and managing
continence
- Emptying commodes
- Assistance with skin and hair care
- Prompting to take medication
- Assistance with palliative and terminal care (in conjunction
with Community Nurses)
Home Care Assistants may assist with more specialist care
following the necessary training and in line with the North
Somerset Medication Policy. Such assistance may include:
- Assisting with artificial feeding
- Illeostomy and colostomy care – changing of bags
- Catheter care – changing of bags, monitoring output
- Assistance with eye or ear drops
However staff are not allowed to assist with activities that
require the skills and expertise of medical
professionals.
Such activities include:
- Toenail and fingernail cutting and filing
- Ear syringing
- Removing or replacing urinary catheters
- Bowel evacuation
- Injections
- Programming of syringe drivers
Staff must adhere to our Health and Safety policies and are not
allowed to carry out activities which may cause injury to
themselves or to service users
For further information
contact our Care Connect
service.
