Meadowbrook Care Home — New Care Assistant Induction

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A Welcome to Meadowbrook Care Home. As a care assistant, you will be supporting residents with daily tasks such as washing, dressing and eating, and this induction covers the practical routines specific to Meadowbrook rather than the general care certificate training you completed before starting, which this handbook assumes you already hold. B Every resident has a care plan, reviewed monthly, kept in a folder in their room and summarised on the handover board in the staff room; you must read a resident's current care plan before assisting them for the first time, since preferences and abilities can change significantly between reviews, and something that was true a month ago, such as a resident being able to walk unaided, may no longer be accurate. C Meadowbrook operates a strict two-person rule for any manual handling involving hoisting equipment, regardless of how confident an individual care assistant feels about managing alone; this is not negotiable even when the second available staff member is on a different floor and the wait feels inconvenient, since manual handling injuries are the leading cause of staff absence in the care sector nationally, not just at Meadowbrook. D Medication is administered only by staff who have completed the home's medication training and been formally signed off by the manager, which is separate from general care assistant training; if you have not yet completed this, you must never administer medication even if a resident asks you to and it appears straightforward, and should instead find a qualified colleague. Every medication given must be recorded immediately on the resident's chart, not at the end of the shift from memory, since a gap in the written record is treated as seriously as an actual missed dose during any inspection. E Residents' dignity during personal care is a specific, named priority in Meadowbrook's own policy, not just a general aspiration: doors and curtains must be closed during washing and dressing regardless of how brief the task seems, and a resident should always be told what is about to happen before it happens, even if they have dementia and may not retain the explanation, since the courtesy of being told matters independently of whether it is remembered afterwards. F Any unexplained bruise, cut or other injury on a resident, however minor it appears, must be reported to the shift supervisor before the end of the shift in which it is noticed and logged in the home's incident book, since an unreported minor injury today can obscure a genuine pattern of concern if a similar injury recurs in future weeks.

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