This information pack will help to provide you with lots of knowledge regarding the roles and
the importance of non-direct workers in a residential care home, as well as the interpersonal
skills required by these non-direct workers. This information pack consists firstly of a flow
chart explaining the role of several different non-direct workers in a residential home in
chronological order of importance. Secondly, the information pack will include a report which
will outline the interpersonal skills that are required for non-direct care workers. To conclude,
it will have a description of each interpersonal skill previously outlined, and why they are so
Manager
The role of a manager is to employ all of the members’ of staff working in the residential
home, which includes all of the responsibilities that comes with this (e.g. ensuring DBS
checks are completed, carrying out interviews). Managers’ ensure the establishment is
being run efficiently and they are in charge of all members’ of staff. Additionally, they must
follow any complaints/enquiries through to a good solution to make sure all of the residents’
in the home as well as family members’ of the residents’ are happy and satisfied with the
service being provided.
important.
Assistant Manager
The assistant manager of a residential care home simply helps the manager with exactly the
same duties. So for example, there is always at least the manager or the assistant manager
present at work on any given day. The assistant manager will help to take the workload off
of the manager by sharing the responsibilities’ required (e.g. interviews).
Receptionist
The receptionist’s role is to greet service users’ family as well as other visitors’ to the home,
ensuring that they don’t pose any potential harm to the people within the provision by
making sure they are who they say they are, for example. Receptionists also answer the
phone to people calling in and answer any enquiries, or alternatively put them through to the
correct person. As well as answering enquiries over the phone, they will also do this in
person and via email.
Administrator
The administrator in the residential care home helps the smooth running of the service, and
they simply help the other members’ of staff (e.g. managers’, carers’) to do their job properly.
Administrators create rotas for the members’ of staff, as well as creating and distributing
letters’. The other members’ of staff in the home rely heavily on the administrators’ as they
organise all of the paperwork in the home, which correlates with their practical work.