Healthcare Assistant-permanent Contract

**Healthcare Assistant-Permanent Contract, Blackpool, Lancashire**:
**Job details**:
Job Ref
23218

Pay Rate (ph)
£16.00-£20.00

Location
Blackpool, Lancashire

Work Patterns
Full Time, Part Time, Nights, Evenings,

Driver Required
No

**Job description**:
**If you are looking for a rewarding new role within healthcare, you are in the right place**

**Working in healthcare can be incredibly fulfilling as it allows you to make a positive impact on people's lives every day.**

We are looking for experienced and committed Healthcare Assistants with an interactive approach, who are eager to enhance their skills in the complex care sector. While prior complex care experience is beneficial, it is not a requirement as full bespoke clinical training will be provided.

You will need to be passionate about delivering the highest quality care to our service users, building positive relationships with them and their family whilst empowering them to live as independently as possible within the comfort of their own home.

**Benefits of this role include**
- Paid DBS
- Paid Mandatory Training
- Permanent contract with Apollo Home Healthcare

**Meet our service user**

Our service user is a sociable, fun, loving girl, that is living with her family in Blackpool and requires care throughout the day and night on a 1:1 basis to support her complex care needs.

A key aspect of this role involves being vigilant to her care needs, engaging and interacting, sharing her hobbies, interests and accessing her favourite social activities. Some of her favourites do include playing with her dolls, baking, being around her friends, and having her plaited.

At home throughout the evening, you will provide support with all aspects of her care and companionship, this includes personal care, moving and handling, clinical observations and attending to her clinical care needs where required. You will be involved in our service user’s night-time routine, creating a calming environment ready for a settled night's sleep ahead.

Throughout the night you will provide support with her personal care, repositioning, clinical observations and attending to her clinical care needs when required. You will offer reassurance and comfort to promote a restful night’s sleep.

**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**:

- TPN Awareness
- Enteral Feeding

**We have the following shifts available with the opportunity of a Permanent contract**
- Full Time and Part Time Evenings and waking nights
- 5:00pm - 10:00pm
- 10:00pm - 8:00am
- Alternate Saturday and Sundays are essential for this position

**Take a look at our pay rates**

Weekdays: £16.00 per hour (£80.00 approx. per 5-hour shift)

Weeknights: £16.50 per hour (£165.00 approx. per 10-hour shift)

Saturday & Sundays: £17.00 per hour (£170.00 approx. per 10-hour shift)

Bank Holidays: £20.00 per hour (£200.00 approx. per 10-hour shift)

**This is a personally rewarding role where you can build on your skills and experience, whilst delivering exceptional care and support to our service user, 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