Apollo Home Healthcare

Children's Healthcare Assistant

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Job summary

Are you looking to expand your skills and enhance your career to include providing Complex Clinical Care or do you already have Complex Care experience?

Apollo Home Healthcare are seeking experienced Healthcare Assistants to support our young service user with her complex care needs.

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 who are passionate about delivering the highest quality one-to-one care for our service user whilst building positive relationships with them and their family.

Our service user is a young girl who lives at home with her family in Brackley, she requires support throughout the night on 1:1 with her complex care needs.

She loves to play and explore with her interactive toys especially listening to the different sounds, along with watching her favourite T.V programmes such as in the Night Garden and Teletubbies, where she loves to explore and observe the variety of colours.

Main duties of the job

Throughout the night you will be required to make close clinical observations, attend to her complex and clinical care needs when required, support with personal care, regular monitoring and offering comfort and reassurance when needed to promote a restful nights sleep.

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

We have the following shifts available;

  • Full Time and Part Time Nights
  • 2-4 Shifts Per Week
  • 10pm 8am

Take a look at our pay rates

  • Weeknights: £13.50 per hour (£135 approx. per 10-hour shift)
  • Saturday & Sundays: £14.00 per hour (£140 approx. per 10-hour shift)
  • Bank Holiday: £15.00 per hour (£150 approx. per 10-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 users.

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.

About us

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:

  • Flexible hours to suit*
  • Confirmed rotas
  • Excellent rates of pay - Weekly
  • Holiday pay
  • Excellent rewards and recognition scheme
  • Opportunity to work with other service users in the area*
  • Ongoing professional training and development

Details

Date posted

18 December 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£13 to £15 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

E0023-22472-BRACKLEY

Job locations

1

Please note we are unable to supply the actual address

The area below is where the role is located:

Brackley, Northamptonshire

NN13 5NX


Job description

Job responsibilities

The role of a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) is to work without direct supervision in the home of the service user providing care and support including personal, social, and domestic support whilst adhering to the service users individual care and support plan.

The aim of the position is to enable service users to remain safely in their own home with as much independence as possible.

Alongside providing care and support in a professional, discreet, and caring manner, always ensuring the service users right to privacy and dignity is maintained

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role of a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) is to work without direct supervision in the home of the service user providing care and support including personal, social, and domestic support whilst adhering to the service users individual care and support plan.

The aim of the position is to enable service users to remain safely in their own home with as much independence as possible.

Alongside providing care and support in a professional, discreet, and caring manner, always ensuring the service users right to privacy and dignity is maintained

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

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

Desirable

  • Epilepsy Care
  • Seizure Management
  • Global Development Delay Awareness
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

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

Desirable

  • Epilepsy Care
  • Seizure Management
  • Global Development Delay Awareness

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Apollo Home Healthcare

Address

1

Please note we are unable to supply the actual address

The area below is where the role is located:

Brackley, Northamptonshire

NN13 5NX


Employer's website

https://www.apollohomehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Apollo Home Healthcare

Address

1

Please note we are unable to supply the actual address

The area below is where the role is located:

Brackley, Northamptonshire

NN13 5NX


Employer's website

https://www.apollohomehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Team

jobs@apollohomehealthcare.com

01902847111

Details

Date posted

18 December 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£13 to £15 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

E0023-22472-BRACKLEY

Job locations

1

Please note we are unable to supply the actual address

The area below is where the role is located:

Brackley, Northamptonshire

NN13 5NX


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