Posted: 21h ago
The role
Job Description
Job Description: Female Complex Care Support Worker (PO8)Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced female Care Worker to provide 8-hour shifts, 7 days per week in the PO8 area. The role is focused on delivering high-quality complex care support for a service user with multi-faceted clinical and mobility needs, ensuring safety, comfort, and dignity at all times.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on complex care support during 8-hour shifts, 7 days per week
- Deliver care in line with the service user’s support plan and agreed care protocols, including:
- Regular suctioning
- Chest physiotherapy as required
- Home oxygen administration as required
- Apnoea management
- PEG feeding
- Seizure management
- Double incontinence support, including awareness of recurrent UTIs
- Support safe mobility and transfers, including:
- Full hoist transfers requiring 2 carers
- Care for contractures to both knees
- Management of very stiff hips
- Support with limited tolerance when sitting in a wheelchair due to discomfort
- Maintain safe working practices, infection control, and accurate documentation of care delivered
- Promote independence where possible, while ensuring comfort and safety throughout the shift
Requirements
- Must be female (to meet the personal care needs of the service user)
- Experience working in complex care and/or supporting individuals with high-acuity needs (suctioning, oxygen, PEG feeding, seizures)
- Experience and confidence with hoist transfers and working with two-car transfers
- Understanding of continence care and safeguarding with awareness of recurrent UTIs
- Ability to follow care plans and respond appropriately to changing care needs
- Strong communication skills and a calm, professional approach under pressure
Location and Working Pattern
- Location: PO8 area
- Hours:8-hour shifts
- Days:7 days per week
