Healthcare Assistant - Peterborough, United Kingdom - Apollo Home Healthcare

Apollo Home Healthcare

Verified Company

Peterborough, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Healthcare Assistant, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire:

Job details:

Job Ref
22672

Pay Rate (ph)
£ £15.50

Location
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Work Patterns
Part Time, Nights,

Driver Required
No

Job description:

Are you a nurturing and dedicated individual who thrives from supporting and working with adults?

Do you have a special place in your heart for enhancing the lives of the individuals you support?
If you are an experienced Healthcare Assistant looking to expand your skills and knowledge into complex clinical care or if you already have complex care experience, this could be the perfect job role for you

We are looking for compassionate and committed Healthcare Assistants in Peterborough, who are passionate about delivering the highest quality one-to-one care for our service user, building positive relationships with them and their family while enabling them to live as independently as possible in his home.

Meet our service user

Our service user is a gentleman in his 60's who lives in Peterborough with his wife, he requires support on a 1:1 basis throughout the day and night.

Your role will be to support with all daily tasks including personal care, moving, and handling and attending to his clinical care requirements when required.

As well as supporting with his care needs you will be there to manage his medication, liaise with health professionals on his behalf, act appropriately to any concerns identified and support with his social and leisure activities.

He is unable to communicate verbally and communicates through communication aids and can mouth words to express his thoughts and desires.

It is important that his care team become familiar with his methods of communication to ensure his needs and wants are met.

Our service user has specifically requested for female staff to work on their team

Essential Experience Required

3 months previous care experience
Personal Care
Moving and Handling
Medication Administration

Desirable Experience

PEG Feeding
Tracheostomy Care
Oral Suctioning

We have the following shifts available;

Part time
Days and Nights

Monday

Friday 3:00pm10:00pm
Weekends
9.00am10:00pm
Nights 10:00pm 9.00am

Take a look at our payrates

Weekdays:
£14.00 per hour (£98.00 approx. per 7-hour shift)

Weeknights £14.50 per hour (£ approx. per 11-hour shift)

Weekends £15.00 per hour (£ per 13-hour shift)

Bank Holidays £15.50 per hour (£ per 13 hour shift)

This is a personally rewarding role where you can build on your clinical skills and experience, whilst delivering exceptional care and support to our service user, really making an impact on his day-to-day life.

Apollo Home Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and we advertise a high volume of vacancies on behalf of our clients.

Due to the nature of the vacancies we recruit for, our clients have the right to request whether they wish for female or male staff to work on their team.

These specific requirements do not reflect the views of our organisation.

Why work for Apollo Home Healthcare?:
We specialise in the provision of highly complex clinical care services delivered in the homes of service users.

We are passionate about delivering the highest standard of care and we recognise that our Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers are integral to doing this.

In return for your hard work and dedication you will receive: