Health Care Assistant - Herne Bay, United Kingdom - Continuity Of Care Services
Description
**Looking for a new role or would like to further your skills? Do you want to help someone with their day- to
- day life? Join us as a Complex Care Assistant today**Are you naturally kind and caring? Experience is preferable not is not necessary, as long as you have the right ethos and transferrable skills, we will provide you with high-quality in house training and ongoing support to enable you to flourish in your career as a Complex Care Assistant.
Who are we?
Continuity of Care Services is a Domiciliary care provider based in Maidstone, Kent.
We specialise in a range of needs such as:
Elderly, Dementia, Learning Disabilities, Complex Care, End of Life and Companionship for children and adults.
We are an award winning provider who strives to achieve the very best _person centred care_ to all of our families.
To us, understanding the needs of the client is mandatory and therefore will endeavour to create a specific team of Health Care Assistants to build a rapport with the client needing our help.
The role as a Health Care Assistant:
Our position is to look after a client in their 20s in Herne Bay who requires 24hour care.
The lady is non-verbal, communicates via Makaton and has complex care needs including:
- PEG
- Central Line
- Mitrofanoff Catheter
- Ileostomy Stoma
- Behaviours that may Challenge
- Altered States of Consciousness
- Any previous experience managing these complex needs is desirable but not essential as full training will be provided. _
We are looking for Health Care Assistants to spend 12 hour days (8am 8pm) with the client to:
- Provide personal care and assist to get dressed.
- Empty Ileostomy bag and change and provide skin care around Stoma.
- Pass as required catheter via Mitrofanoff Stoma to drain urine and cleansed skin as required.
- Assist with eating / drinking food and drinks of her choice.
- Assist movement around the home using suitable moving and handling equipment whilst maintaining safety.
- Administer prescribed medications via Peg tube.
- Monitor pain and administer PRN pain relief as required via Peg.
- Provide emotional support and maintain clear working boundaries and social stimulation.
- Provide psychological and social support by doing activities together that stimulate mentally, helping to gain and hold attention and help to interact with others.
- Encouraging communication and focusing on other topics other than physical health needs. This may include activities within and outside of the home.
Advantages of Joining our Team:
- Fully funded training and access to our training academy
- Higher than average rates of pay
PLUS enhanced pay on Saturdays & Sundays - Opportunities to take any Health and Social Care Qualifications
- Career progression
- Opportunities to go into nursing and gain your nursing qualifications
- Refer a friend scheme (terms & conditions apply)
- 24/7 for assistance as well as your line manager
- Opportunities to speak to our Mental Health First Aider
- CCS Healthy Living
- Annual Saving Scheme
- Bonus Schemes
- Annual Charity Events
- Full PPE provided to each carer with weekly testing
- Company phone
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