Company Description
Location: Newhaven
Pay Rate: £15.50 per hour
Shifts Available: Various shifts are available
Bring your caring and compassionate attitude to our fantastic team.
As an 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!
As a care professional, you'll get:
* Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay
* Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement
* Death in Service Payment
* Pension scheme
* Benefits and Well-being Platform
* 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Refer a friend scheme - earn £300 per referral!
* Blue Light Card eligibility - 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 our in-house app
* Work for the largest care company in the UK!
* No experience necessary
* Book an interview at a time and date to suit you!
Job Description
Care Assistant: Role & Responsibilities
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 improve 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 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
Qualifications
Care Assistant Job: Skills & Requirement
Previous experience in a complex care assistant role is essential, the care assistant skills and attributes needed are:
* Compassion
* Resilience
* A willingness to learn
Previous experience in complex care such as Tracheostomy and Suction is ESSENTIAL !
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.
Keywords : Carer, Care Assistant, Care Professional, Care Worker, Healthcare Assistants, Support Workers