Healthcare Assistant

**Healthcare Assistant, Mossley, Greater Manchester**:
**Job details**:
Job Ref
23310

Pay Rate (ph)
£13.00-£17.50

Location
Mossley, Greater Manchester

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

**Meet our service user**

Our service user is a sophisticated lady in her 60’s who lives at home with her family and requires support with her complex care needs on a 2:1 basis throughout the night.

You will provide personalised care tailored to the ladies’ unique needs, assisting with her care needs offering companionship and emotional support, enhancing her quality of life and overall well-being.

She enjoys spending quality time with her family and care team, watching T.V, listening to music, online shopping and baking.

Taking pride in her appearance is very important to her, she loves beauty treatments, along with having her hair and makeup done. All in all, a good pamper.

Throughout the night you will provide support with her personal care, repositioning, attending to her clinical care needs when required and providing a peaceful environment to promote a restful night’s sleep.

**Please note, applicants must be pet friendly as our service user does have 2 pet dogs.**

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

**To be successful in this role it is essential that you have experience with the following**:

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

**Experience working with the following clinical needs is desirable, however is not essential to be considered for this role**:

- Tracheostomy Care
- Ventilation Management
- Oral Suctioning

**We have the following shifts available;**
- Part Time Nights available
- 2 shifts per week
- 7:00pm - 7:00am
- Alternate weekends will be needed for this position

**Take a look at our pay rates**

Weeknights: £13.50 per hour (Approx.£162 per 12-hour shift)

Weekends: £14.00 per hour (Approx. £168 per 12-hour shift)

Bank Holidays £17.50 per hour (Approx. £210 per 12-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 and really making 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:

- 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