- 3 months previous care experience
- Personal Care
- Moving and Handling
- Medication Administration
- PEG Feeding
- Tracheostomy Care
- Part Time Nights
- 7pm – 6am
- 1-2 Shifts Per Week
- Flexible hours to suit
- Confirmed rotas
- Excellent rates of pay
- Holiday pay
- Full clinical training
- Opportunity to work with other service users in the area
- Ongoing professional training and development Please do not hesitate to contact our dedicated recruitment team on or email on to find out more. Apply for this job
Children's Healthcare Assistant - Colchester, United Kingdom - Apollo Home Healthcare Ltd
Description
Job description
Are you a nurturing and dedicated individual who thrives from supporting and working with children?
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
Meet our service user
Our service user is a bubbly little girl who lives with his family in Colchester, she requires support throughout the night on a 1:1 basis.
She likes to play interactive games on her iPad with her parents, listening to music and bringing out her inner artist with her colouring books. She also loves watching TV and Netflix, one of her favourite programmes to watch is Paw Patrol.
To express her feelings and indicate his wants and needs she uses various facial expressions and sounds. It is important that you can understand and interpret her communication to avoid her becoming distressed or frustrated.
Throughout the night you will be required to attend to her complex and clinical care needs, support with personal care, moving & handling, repositioning, regular monitoring and offering comfort and reassurance when needed to promote a restful night's sleep.
Our service user has specifically requested for female staff to work on their team.
Essential Experience Required
Desirable Experience
We have the following shifts available;
Take a look at our pay rates
Weeknights: £15.00 per hour (£165 approx. per 11hr shift)
Saturday : £15.00 per hour (£165 approx. per 11hr shift)
Sunday : £15.00 per hour (£165 approx. per11hr shift)
Bank Holiday : £17.00 per hour (£187 approx. per 11hr 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 and really make an impact on her 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: