Healthcare Assistant

**Healthcare Assistant job vacancy**:
**Job details**:
Job Ref
21470

Pay Rate (ph)
£13.00-£13.50

Location
Norton Canes, Burntwood

Work Patterns
Full Time, Part Time, Days, Nights,

Driver Required
No

**Job description**:
**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 is seeking experienced Healthcare Assistants to support our service user with their complex care needs.

We are looking for dedicated and compassionate Healthcare Assistants who are passionate about their job, enjoy delivering one to one support and who can build positive relationships with our service users and their families.

Our service user is a young adult, who lives at home with his family in Staffordshire.

He is non-verbal and communicates using various sounds, he will also giggle and laugh.

Due to his complex care needs he relies on his care team for all his personal care needs, he will need regular repositioning to minimise the risk of pressure sores.

As part of his dedicated care team, you will support him throughout the day meeting his development, personal care and social needs as required.

We are looking for engaging and committed individuals who can deliver exceptional person-centred care and support this young male on a long term, ongoing basis.

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

**Essential Experience Required**
- 3 months previous care experience
- Medication Administration
- Personal Care
- Moving and Handling

**Desirable Experience**
- Seizure Management
- Global Development Delay awareness & understanding
- Scoliosis awareness & understanding
- Asthma awareness & understanding
- Administering Cough Assist experience
- Lennox Gastatut Syndrome awareness

**Shifts Available**
- Full Time / Part Time
- 11am-6pm Days
- 10pm-7am Nights

**Take a look at our pay rates**

Weekdays : £13.00 per hour (£117 approx. per shift)

Weeknights : £13.50 per hour(£121.50 approx. per shift)

Saturday : £13.50 per hour(£121.50 approx. per shift)

Sunday : £13.50 per hour (£121.50 approx. per shift)

**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:

- 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