Company Description
Location: Newhaven
Pay Rate: £15.50 per hour
Shifts Available: Day and night 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 help maintain their independence, dignity and self-worth. Every day is different!
As a care professional, you'll get:
* Work for the largest care company in the UK!
* Benefits and Well-being Platform
* Refer a friend scheme – earn £300 per referral!
* Blue Light Card eligibility – exclusive staff discounts at big brands for you
* Paid training – online and face-to-face
* Self-development – progression opportunities
* Enhanced occupational maternity, paternity and adoption pay
* Death in Service Payment
* Pension scheme
* 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Access to our in-house app
* Book an interview at a time and date to suit you!
Job Description
Care Assistant: Role & Responsibilities
Join us as a Children's Complex Care Assistant to provide dedicated overnight care for a happy 2-year-old girl with Treacher Collins syndrome. She has a tracheostomy and is PEG fed, needing careful monitoring while her parents rest. She loves dolls, teddies, and crafts and will start nursery in September. This role offers rewarding, dynamic work where you’ll make a real difference every night.
Your responsibilities will include overnight tracheostomy care and monitoring, ensuring the child’s safety and comfort during sleep, and supporting both the child and her family with compassion.
Qualifications
Care Assistant Job: Skills & Requirement
Previous experience in care or childcare is essential for this role. Full training will be provided, along with ongoing clinical support, to help you develop specialist skills in key areas such as tracheostomy care.
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