Live In Care Support Assistant

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you caring, compassionate and would like to make a difference to someone’s life?  Then come and join us for a rewarding career in care. 

We are looking for a Live In Care Support Assistant to come and join our team to support a client with Spinal Muscular Atrophy based in London, SW19 and SW7 postcode areas. 

Full training will be given to set you on your path to being a Live In Care Support Assistant, where you will be paid a competitive rate of pay of £163.71 per day (£1146.00 per week of work) after completion of training.  

This job involves Live In Care, where you will work one week on and one week off with emergency sickness cover required. You will also receive 14 hours break during your week on. 

As a Live In Care Support Assistant you will be working day shifts and sleeping night shifts and will be supporting our client with his complex needs on a 2:1 basis. Our client attends University and you will be required to support him at his university halls of residence in the SW7 postcode area as well as at his family residence in the SW19 postcode area. 

We offer excellent benefits such as:

• Good Rate of Pay
• Paid annual holiday leave
• Pension scheme entitlement
• Full training
• Confidential employee assistance helpline
• Opportunity to gain qualification in Health and Social Care
• Career progression 
• Blue Light membership for exclusive discounts with 15,000 brand partners
• Refer a friend scheme
• Online employee portal - where information and self-service is available
• Employee feedback surveys and recognition

Your responsibilities as our Live In Care Support Assistant will include:   Meeting our client's complex care needs such as moving and handling, personal care, secretion and saturation management, use of ventilation and administering medication as well as accessing the community and maintaining the home environment. 

Skills and Experience required of our Live In Care Support Assistant: 

You are required to have good communication skills and have a desire to care for others.   Possessing a UK full driving license and having some previous experience would be advantageous. 

Your Life Your Way are committed to conducting a Safer Recruitment Process to protect the people we support. Please be aware that all our vacancies are subject to pre-employment checks e.g. DBS and references. A good standard of spoken and written English is required for this role.

If you would like to apply to become our Live In Care Support Assistant, please apply via our website by uploading a copy of your CV and filling in our short application form. 

Person Specification

Care Support Worker

Essential

• Previous experience in care

Desirable

• Previous experience in care
• UK driving licence

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.

Employer details

Employer name

YOURLIFEYOURWAY

Address

London

London

London

London

SW7 1BA

Employer's website

https://ylyw.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)