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What is the role of a home care worker?
Social duties include preparing and cooking meals, essential cleaning, shopping, bill payment and re
maintenance. Enabling and support may include such activities as supervising, monitoring and coaching
to empower service users to be as independent as possible and have control over their own lives.
Care Assistant responsibilities and duties
- Assist clients with personal care tasks, such as washing, dressing, eating and toileting.
- Perform light housekeeping tasks, such as dusting, vacuuming and changing bed linens.
- Assist in the safe lifting, transferring, repositioning and movement of clients.
NOT only do these home care worker help the needs of these people but they also provide a friendship to
these people and without their help they would be lonely and unable to survive/ care for themselves.
