Adult Care Home Worker
- Regulators
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- Northern Ireland Social Care Council
- Nations
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- Northern Ireland
- Sectors
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- Health and care
Regulatory or professional bodies
Primary regulator
- Regulatory authority
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council
- Address
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7th Floor,
Millennium House,
9-25 Great Victoria Street
Belfast
BT2 7AQ - Email address
- registration@niscc.hscni.net
- Website
- https://www.niscc.info
- Phone number
- +44 (0)2895 362 600
Regulation
Regulation summary
ARCW (Adult Residential Care Worker) *Compulsory Registration*
Adult care home workers work in a residential setting to support, care for and protect and empower people to live as well as independently as possible.
They deliver practical help and individual support to the people they are caring for. This may include older people, people with physical, sensory, learning disabilities, mental ill health, addictions and homelessness.
Adult home care workers must register with the Northern Ireland Social Care Council before they take up a post. They are registered on Part Two of the Northern Ireland Social Care Council register.
Adult home care workers must work to the NISCC Standards of Conduct and Practice for Social Care Workers.
Regulation type
Reserved activities
Tasks delegated by other professionals.
- More about regulated activities and titles
- http://www.niscc.info
Qualifications and experience
New professionals
- Routes to qualification
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Knowledge and skills are important for this work - employers are also interested in employing people with the right values and a willingness to learn.
The Northern Ireland Social Care Council have a guide - Qualifications Guide for Social Care This includes essential, desirable and relevant qualifications.
Employers set their own qualification requirements based on service need.
- More about qualification
- http://niscc.info
Professionals from outside the UK
- Recognition for professionals outside the UK
- All - there are routes to recognition for professionals from all countries
- Summary of routes
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If you hold nursing or social work qualifications you can apply to the regulator in Northern Ireland to have your qualification assessed to determine if you can register in Northern Ireland.
- More about recognition for professionals outside the UK
- http://niscc.info
Registration
- Registration requirements
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Adult care home worker - must register with the Northern Ireland Social Care Council on Part Two of the register.
To register you must have secured a position an adult home care worker / be registered for social care work with a recruitment agency / have a start date for a social care position.
If newly recruited - apply to register as soon as you take up post.
To maintain registration you must pay an annual fee and meet continual professional development requirements.
- More about registration
- http://niscc.info/registration-matters/
Legislation
- Title of relevant act or charter
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The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (Social Care Workers
Prohibition) and Fitness of Workers Regulations (Northern
Ireland) 2013 - Website link to legislation
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/225/made