Sustainability in Career Development: A Case Study of a Senior Care Worker

This article discusses the concept of sustainability in career development through a case study of a senior care worker. It includes a detailed CV and job description of the care worker, along with their educational qualifications and experience. The article also provides insights into the skills, qualities, and qualifications required for a career in healthcare. Subject: Career Development | Course Code: N/A | Course Name: N/A | College/University: N/A

SUSTAINABILITY IN
CAREER DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CV....................................................................................................................................................3
JOB DESCRIPTION.......................................................................................................................6
QUESTIONS...................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

CV
Name: XYZ
Phone number: 123456789
E- mail address: [e-mail]
Professional profile
Compassionate and dedicated care worker with an experience of over 8 years of
providing high- quality care at home for the aged individuals. I give extreme attention towards
the details related to the health and safety condition of individuals during the time of preparing
for their timely meals and administrating medication. Outgoing and resourceful skills for the
purpose of scheduling the maintenance and support the patients for daily living. Passionate about
providing quality of life to the patients. Have extended knowledge related to healthcare services
from the experience in delivering individual care plans. Skilled in the areas of supporting mental
health and up for promoting as well as maintaining the well- being of the patient. Demonstrate
strong leadership qualities with the quality of assessing the patients and supervising their health
associated with safety and compassionate care. Works with high integrity and with the best
interest of patients in accordance of the policies and procedures for establishing effective home
care.
Core skills
 Health and social care.
 patient care for aged individuals.
 Mental health support.
 Patient management.
 Health promotion.
 Experience of more than 8 years.
 Building care plans for patients.
 Eager to learn new skills related to area of healthcare.
 Caring and kind in nature. Have strong communication skills.
Career summary

Present- Jan 2021
The granary, Bristol as a Senior care assistance
Outline: Work within a team of 11 care assistance to ensure proper delivery of ideal care in
elderly patients going through mental health problems including dementia and Alzheimer's.
Key responsibilities:
 Providing high caring standards for aged patients while focusing on everyday care that
includes taking care of hygiene and general well- being.
 Responsible for accurate completion of administrative tasks and forming reports that are
related to patient and their care.
 Acting in the best interest of clients while following the policies and procedures of
providing care to elder patients.
 Working in collaboration with several multidisciplinary teams while promoting
empathetic communications with the relatives of patients.
 Making strong connections with doctors and other professional staff of hospital during
the time of discussing needs and requirements of the patients.
 Requesting for emergency medical input when needed.
 Facilitating social events and programs in order to keep the patients entertained while
also coordinating these events.
 Lastly, ensuring proper maintenance of the rooms of patients along with the communal
areas to promote safety of patients by avoiding any issues such as spread of an infection.
Key achievements:
 Assisted patients during the assessment process by providing them with relevant
education thus, increasing relative feedback in positive way.
 Redesigned the monitoring system for patients into making it a check- in system. It helps
in managing the status of their health and reducing their expenses.
April 2018- January 2021
Bristol care association as a health care provider
Outline: A part of strong care team of 11 members aimed to provide essential care for the elderly
people present around the Bristol area and requiring the need of attention of healthcare. Worked
with an emphasis on maintaining well- being and independence of patients.
Key responsibilities:

 Attending the patient in their home space ad providing them with essential care on
regular basis.
 Working with main focus on personal hygiene and building mental stimulation.
 Maintaining and up keeping homes of the clients and promoting safety with clean and
comfortable space for the patients.
 Accompanying patients to perform various activities while organising social events thus,
promoting well- being of patients.
Key achievements:
 Was awarded as the best caregiver facility.
 Wrote a book on various process involved in care giving along with the important
protocol to be followed to benefit the new and under trained staff members.
January 2013- April 2018
Bristol senior care
Care home worker
Outline: Providing extra care for the group of patients in their own homes and later leading the
team of 5 health carers in assistant positions along with some junior staff. This is done by
ensuring high care of patients going through complex mental health problems and concerns.
Key responsibilities:
 Attending homes for client and assists them with personal care.
 It includes washing, dressing and other general hygiene parameters.
 Oversaw the process of preparing meals while assisting patients when feeding them.
Education Qualifications
 Level 2 NVQ in the field of health and social care,
August 2013- December 2013,
South Thames college, London.
 A- level
Specialisation in- English literature, Biology, History.
From- September 2011- June 2013,
Newton college, London.

 Professional development-
Health and safety training, Fire safety training, Food hygiene certificate.
Additional information
 Time management: Good at following planned schedule to complete all the tasks in
personal and professional life. These tasks include the travel time to make sure that all
my clients have received the care without any type of delay.
 Hygiene and health and safety: Works by following all the regulations and safety
standards along with special focus on offering safety at home space for the clients.
 Confidentiality: Work in ethical way by following the privacy and confidentiality
guidelines. Strictly observe requirements for collecting client's personal data.
 Communication: Built a good relation with patients in the way of offering extra and
genuine social interactions that is very therapeutic for them.
 Administrative assistance: Helped patients with completing tasks such as payment of
bills and making appointments for doctor visits.
 Technological skills: Good IT skills with the use of Microsoft office- word, excel,
Google sheets, Google calender along with other software.
 Have a full clean driving licence that is CRB checked.
Languages known
 English- fluent, bilingual
 French- Fluent, bilingual
 Polish- Proficient
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: Senior care worker
Base: Elder patients with mental health problems
Professional accountability: Unit manager
Industry: Healthcare

Job summary: To support qualified staff in care centre in delivering essential care by assisting
within the care procedures and helping within the general unit. Care workers help patients in
living independently. It includes helping in the social and physical activities such as booking
appointments and dressing the patients. This role involves dealing with the clients having mental
health issues and are aged.
Duties and Responsibilities:
 Observing, monitoring and recording the conditions of patient by taking their
temperatures and pulse rate.
 Building good communication with the patients and their families.
 Helping in some of the clinical duties of health carer.
 Providing personal care such as preventing the place from any infections, monitoring the
hygiene of food being served to the patient and reassuring safety and comfort for them.
 Promoting nutritional and healthy diet for the patients.
 Checking on medical supplies fir the patients.
Educational Qualification and experience:
 Job seekers must have completed a level 2 certification in works preparation for health
and safety.
 A- level graduation from school with biology being a main subject.
 Exceptional candidates must hold the certification in various safety departments.
 Candidates must have ability to provide care and comfort to their patients.
 Demonstrate this in previous job and experiences within healthcare industry of more than
5 years.
 One must understand the key responsibilities related to safety involved within personal
assistance to patients.
Skills required:
 High level of patience to remain calm in stressful situations.
 Multitasker.
 Good communication skills.
 Caring and kind.

QUESTIONS
1. I want to work within healthcare industry, as a care provider. This industry includes the
companies providing clinical services and medial equipments to the needed. This sector is
expected to grow at rapid speed in the future. Working as a care workers includes being
emotionally and physically demanding while working with good performance along with
managing the time effectively for various activities involved within it. There are a lot of
opportunities within this sector that requires different skill- set and support to the patients. This
job helps in supporting the vulnerabilities of the elderly people or even individuals with
disabilities. Jobs within health and social care requires being compassionate with the people with
the help of interpersonal skills and allowing my career to make a real difference within lives of
people. This jobs right within my qualifications as well as personal interests. This job will allow
me to use my qualities into helping other present in their vulnerable state.
Transformation within the healthcare industry and brings better outcomes in terms of
health. This sector is not future proof, and is affected by society at large. Healthcare sector is
focusing on delivering the wellness and staying connected with the health system that includes
the use of technology. Healthcare industry is being transformed after the pandemic and is being
reshaped. Emerging technologies are providing breakthroughs for driving confluence between
different worlds. With technology, healthcare provides are identifying the diseases at an early
stage and this change is focused to bring wellness with carers playing an active role.
2. A health care providing must have a lot of qualities while offering care to patients. These
qualities help in overcoming several challenges and performing various attributes of job in an
efficient way. The qualification and experience will help to work in home- care setting.
These qualities include:
Caring: Along with the medical assistance, showing care while providing services helps the user
to be interacting and listening to them by showing genuine concerns. These concerns are for the
welfare of patients. This is important as the patients will come from very isolated place and
therefore, caring will take an important place in ensuring that no steps are missed in the process.

Respectful: A carer must helps people vary different backgrounds and culture and must treat
them with full respect. Respectful nature can foster best working relations and fulfil some
personal needs of patients that ask for their own privacy.
Friendly: Being open and friendly is a great way to enhance the working relations in accordance
with the services provided. Carer in healthcare sector must be working with service users and
handle individuals with behavioural issues. Having friendly attitude will ensure the feeling of
being happy and safe in the presence of a carer.
Flexible: this job profile comes with having different working life and allowing care assistance
to attend different service. It includes providing certain degree of flexibility and using the
approach to shift the caseload of providing great services for the patients.
Communicative: Good communication is important within home care and includes both
listening and speaking. A carer undergoes different range of health related issues and built in the
ability to communicate in an effective way. It is important to listen and respond to patients in
appropriate manner.
Eager to learn: With all the existing qualifications, it is required to be eager to learn and
develop various skills to improve from previous experience of becoming a care provider. The
work includes providing full training and possess skills of great carer. Willingness to learn will
improve the quality of care as well as knowledge.

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