Care Assistant

**Job Title**: Healthcare Assistant

**Location**: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29

**Shifts**: Mon-Sun, Days available (7am-7pm)

**Salary**: Mon-Fri (Days) £12/ / Sat (Day) £14/ Sun (Day) £16

First Option Healthcare is a trusted provider within the complex care community and provide **clinically led support to adults and paediatric service users** across England based around our values; **Integrity, Excellence, Respect, Collaboration and Ownership.**

There is now an opening for a **Healthcare assistant** to join a care package supporting a lovely 34-year-old woman living in her own home needing support with manual handling, bowel management and suctioning as a result of a spinal cord injury.

**Why is First Option Healthcare the path for you?**
- **Pay reviews **every 6 months
- **Weekly payments **by BACS directly into your bank account
- VIP Nurse and Healthcare assistants’ scheme (including long service awards, blue light card, employee assistance programme and DBS check following certain service length)
- **Refer a friend scheme**: £150 for healthcare assistants and £300 for Registered Nurses
- Free of charge **care certificate **enrolment and training
- Up to **12 week rolling rota & continuity of scheduled work**:

- **Bespoke onsite training** alongside access to London Southbank University training facilities furnished with advanced and modern training equipment
- **State of the art technology** in each package of care
- **Monthly supervisions** to ensure you are supported and happy whilst working with First Option Healthcare
- 24/7 clinical and out of hours care management **support**:

- **No restrictive uniforms**:

- Opportunities to work with our **in-house charity**

**Skills and duties of a Registered Nurse**
- Care setting experience **(Essential)**:

- Suctioning **(Essential)**:

- Manual handling **(Essential)**:

- Ensure care plans and other information are followed and any changes are escalated to clinical leads efficiently and safely
- Using complex care equipment and carrying out complex care procedures
- Supporting clients outside the home when required i.e. medical appointments

We are as passionate as **YOU** about maintaining familiarity in service users’ own homes and bettering their quality of life.

Unlike other providers in the market, we will schedule up to **12hr set location shifts** - with the current price of fuel rising, the energy crisis and unreliability of public transport, you will be glad to know there is **no door to door **and **competitive rates of pay**

We pride ourselves on the encouragement of your **career development** and progression through our **GOSH trained educators** training programme inclusive of tracheostomy care, ventilation, PEG feeding and epilepsy/seizure management, to name a few

Please note to be considered you must be able to meet compliance requirements including willingness to obtain a valid DBS, attend mandatory training and provide satisfactory references.

There is a genuine occupational requirement for the holder of this post to be female in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and Equality Act 2010.

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**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 24-48 per week

**Salary**: £12.00-£16.00 per hour

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- suctioning: 1 year (required)
- manual handling: 1 year (required)

**Language**:

- fluent english (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Reference ID: PMHCAEAST