Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role.
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Duty: Duty is a moral commitment to something or someone. Duty is a result of human beings, one’s particular place, one’s character and one’s own moral expectations. As duty refers to moral commitment, it denotes an active feeling for doing something. Once a person engages himself with some duty or if he has been entrusted with a duty, then that person fully commits himself to it.
As an experienced care worker, my duty involve giving clients personal care, such as assisting with washing, dressing, toileting requirements including catheter and convene care. Assisting with nutritional requirements such as meal planning/preparation/feeding, prompting/administering medication, cleaning, safety, entertainment, etc.
Responsibility: Responsibility is a condition of being responsible. Responsibility can be termed as an ability to act at one’s own will, without any supervision. It is the obligation to successfully complete an assigned task. In responsibility, a person takes upon the duty to complete the task and to make the task a success. In responsibility, a person is solely responsible for the entire task and its outcome and also takes the ownership of the entire task.
As an experienced care worker, my responsibility to ensure that the client maintains an acceptable level of health (both mentally & physically) and to promote the clients well-being. It is also my responsibility to carry out all points covered in job description, person specification, company policies and procedures relevant to my role and to maintain written records for the service delivered, along with responsibility for ensuring that my training needs are kept up-to-date so that I am at the level of standards required to undertake my role.
Finally, it is both my duty and responsibility to treat clients with respect and dignity at all times.
To carry out my duties and responsibilities, I need to show the following