Company Description
Location: Lyminge, near Folkestone
Pay Rate: £14 per hour - Weekdays
£15 per hour - Weeknights & Weekends
Shifts Available: 8am - 8pm Days | 8pm - 8am Nights
Access to a vehicle required, due to the geographical location of the role.
What we offer
Maidstone Complex SCP is part of City & County Healthcare Group. You’ll have access to all the resources, career pathways, benefits, investments, opportunities, and security that being part of City & County Healthcare Group brings. It’s the best of both worlds.
We're sorry, but we do not currently offer sponsorship to applicants.
What you’ll get
1. Maternity/Paternity leave
2. Pension scheme
3. Paid annual leave
4. Refer a friend scheme
5. Cycle-to-work scheme
6. Enhanced DBS check
Job Description
What you'll do
This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your current skill base and join us as a Support Worker. For this role, you must have experience in looking after clients with peg feed. We care for and support people of all ages, in the community, and their homes, with Spinal Cord injury, Muscular dystrophy, acquired brain injuries and many other complex needs. Every day will be different. And you’ll never know what challenges you’re about to face next. One thing you can be sure of though, is that you’ll be making your clients’ days brighter, whilst developing your skills and knowledge.
The client is a young adult who has sustained a spinal injury, and due to this, the client would require several complex needs that need to be met, such as:
7. Catheter Care
8. Bowel Management
9. Moving & Handling.
You will also be required to assist our registered general nurses on shift in the following where needed:
10. Tracheostomy Care
11. Invasive Ventilation
12. Deep Suctioning
13. Cough Assist.
Qualifications
What you'll need
Experience in complex care would be extremely advantageous, especially in the following:
- Catheter care.
- Bowel Management.
- Moving & Handling Equipment.