Healthcare Assistant

Job Ref
21140

Pay Rate (ph)
£13.50 - £15.00

Location
Stafford, Staffordshire

Work Patterns
Full Time, Part Time, Nights, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays,

Driver Required
No

Job description

Are you looking to expand your skills and enhance your career to include providing Complex Clinical Care or do you already have Complex Care experience?

Apollo Home Healthcare is seeking experienced Healthcare Assistants to support a lady with complex care needs.

If you are committed, motivated, and enjoy delivering one-to-one support then this could be just the position you are looking for!

Our service user lives with her partner and daughter in Gnosall and requires support throughout the night on a full or part-time basis.

She is at her happiest when surrounded by her family and extended family.

Coming from a teaching background, she has a naturally caring nature. She loves to get outdoors and takes great pride in her garden. Her other hobbies include listening to 80’s music, watching TV, and reading books.

Your role as her dedicated Healthcare Assistant will be to support her social and personal care needs, administer medication, carry out careful moving and handling, and tend to her clinical interventions.

Our ideal candidate will have experience in respiratory care and oral suctioning however, this is not essential as we offer full comprehensive training to support all her clinical needs.

We ask that you can evidence a strong background in healthcare, have the willingness to upskill into the role of a Complex Care Assistant, and are committed to supporting our service user on a long-term basis.

Our service user has specifically requested for female staff to work on their team.

Essential Experience Required

• 3 months of previous healthcare experience
• Medication administration
• Personal care
• Moving and handling

Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of multiple sclerosis
• Gastrostomy care (PEG Feeding)
• Oral suctioning
• Catheter care

Shifts Available

• We are looking for candidates who can be flexible to pick up the following shifts.
• Full Time / Part Time Nights
• 10pm-6am
• 8pm-8:30am

Take a look at our payrates

• Weeknights/Weekends: £13.50 (£168.75 approx. per 12.5 hour shifts)
• Bank Holiday: £15.00 (£187.50 approx. per 12.5 shifts)

This is a personally rewarding role where you can build on your clinical skills and experience, whilst delivering exceptional care and support to our service user and their family.

Apollo Home Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and we advertise a high volume of vacancies on behalf of our clients.

Due to the nature of the vacancies we recruit for, our clients have the right to request whether they wish for female or male staff to work on their team.

These specific requirements do not reflect the views of our organisation