Children's Healthcare Assistant

**Children's Healthcare Assistant, West Bromwich, West Midlands**:
**Job details**:
Job Ref
21580

Pay Rate (ph)
£12.00 - £15.50

Location
West Bromwich, West Midlands

Work Patterns
Part Time, Days, Nights,

Driver Required
No

**Job description**:
**Are you a nurturing and dedicated individual who thrives from supporting and working with children/young 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 happy teenage boy who lives with his family in West Bromwich, he requires support throughout the day and night on a 1:1 basis.

He enjoys playing with his toys and listening to music, especially waterfall sounds. He also likes to watch lights and patterns; he particularly loves his light up snow globe.

To express his feelings and indicate his wants and needs he uses various facial expressions and sounds. It is important that you can understand and interpret his communication to avoid him becoming distressed or frustrated.

Throughout the day you will be supporting within his educational setting, observing, and tending to his clinical needs and ensuring he is engaged with his learning.

You will be on hand throughout the night to provide reassurance, providing personal care and regular repositioning ensuring that he is safe, well, and comfortable.

Most nights he is settled and sleeps well however, there are occasions where he can be awake for long periods of time.

He has a lovely, outgoing personality and is looking for a like-minded person to join his team.

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

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

**Desirable Experience**
- PEG Feeding
- Nebuliser Care
- Bowel Management
- Oral Suction
- Epilepsy Care

**We have the following shifts available;**
- Part Time
- Days - 8am-4pm
- Nights
- 8pm-6am

**Take a look at our pay rates**

Weekdays: £12.00 per hour (£96 approx. per 8hr shift)

Weeknights : £13.00 per hour(£130 approx. per 10hr shift)

Saturday : £14.00 per hour(£140 approx. per 10hr shift)

Sunday : £14.00 per hour (£140 approx. per 10hr shift)

Bank Holiday : £15.50 per hour(£155 approx. per 10hr 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 make an impact on his 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