Healthcare Assistant

**Healthcare Assistant, Bishop Auckland, County Durham**:
**Job details**:
Job Ref
22293

Pay Rate (ph)
£12.00-£15.50

Location
Bishop Auckland, County Durham

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 are seeking experienced healthcare assistants and support workers to support our service user with his complex care needs on a 1:1 basis.

We are looking for dedicated and compassionate healthcare assistants and support workers 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.

**T&Cs apply**

**Meet our service user**

Our Service user is a gentleman in his 40’s who lives at home with his family and will require support throughout the night to assist with his complex and clinical care needs.

Some of his favourite hobbies include playing dominos, cards, therapy ball games and memory games on his computer.

He loves to watch movies and TV shows especially friends and quiz programmes.

Throughout the night your role will be to support with personal care, repositioning, attending to his clinical care needs when required and promoting a calming environment to support a restful night’s sleep.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to make a positive impact to our service users’ everyday life.

**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**
- Tracheostomy Care
- Gastrostomy Care (PEG Feeding)
- Nebuliser care

**We have the following shifts available;**
- Full Time & Part Time Nights, 2-4 shifts per week
- 9pm-7am
- Part Time Days, 16-20 hrs per week, shift times vary but will be between 9am - 9pm

**Please note that training will be provided locally**

**Take a look at our payrates**
- Weeknights
- £12.00 per hour (Approx. £120 per 10-hour shift)
- Weekends
- £13.00 per hour (Approx. £130 per 10-hour shift)
- Bank Holidays
- £15.50 per hour (Approx. £155 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 and really making an impact in their 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