Pay Rate:£13.50 per hour
Shifts Available:0800 – 1600 / 1500 – 2300 days and nights 2200 - 0900
Bring your caring and compassionate attitude to our fantastic team.
As a Advantage Healthcare Care Assistant, you’ll deliver award winning care to support our clients in their own homes to maintain their independence, dignity and self-worth. Every day is different!
Benefits for our Care Assistants
As a care professional, you'll get:
* Enhanced occupationalmaternity and adoption pay
* Enhanced occupationalpaternity pay entitlement
* Death in Service Payment
* Benefits andWell-being Platform
* 28 days annual leave(pro rata)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Refer a friend scheme– earn £300 per referral!
* Blue Light Cardeligibility – exclusive staff discounts at big brands for you
* Local work and paid mileage
* Paid training– online and face to face
* Self-development– progression opportunities
* Access to ourin-house app
* Work for thelargest care companyin the UK!
* No experience necessary
* Book an interview at atime and date to suit you!
Job Description
What you’ll do
This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your current skill base and join us as a Complex Care Assistant. You will have full training and clinical support to develop and enhance skills in various complex areas such as tracheotomy, ventilation, seizure management, and stoma care plus so much more! We care for and support people of all ages, in the community, and in their home. The client you will be supporting has Motor Neurone Disease, she requires Ventilation, Peg management, Catheter Care and Suction.
Due to her diagnosis of MND this lady does present with mental health issues such as depression, changes in mood and forgetfulness. She is bedbound and requires a hoist for all transfers.
Motor Neurons Disease Is a rare condition effecting the brain and nerves. Symptoms of MND include muscle weakness, twitches, slurred speech, and difficulty swallowing, the symptoms become worse over time. As MND progresses the patient may have trouble breathing, produce excessive saliva, have changes in mood and personality and be unstable when moving
Qualifications
Skills & Requirement
Previous experience in a care assistant role is useful but otherwise, the care assistant skills and attributes needed are:
* Compassion
* Resilience
* A willingness to learn
Additional Information
Why choose us?
We're an equal opportunities employer. Thanks to the commitment of our health care assistants, we see extraordinary achievements happen every day. We are transforming the care industry by working smarter, using innovative tech and driving forward positive change. As the largest care company in the UK, we have care assistant vacancies across the country, and we offer a world of career opportunity, choice and security.
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