Support Worker

**Support Worker**
- Location:_ _Worthing, Brighton, South East_
- Hours:_ _**_Post 1:_**_ _36hours per week_ (days) _**_Post 2:_**_ _36hours per week (nights)_
- Pay:_ _£16.15 to £19.23 per hour_

**About HomeCareDirect**

HomeCareDirect is a national service provider and a leader in personalised home care. We are committed to delivering safe, compassionate and person-centred care, while supporting our staff with top-quality training, supervision and development opportunities.

**Benefits of being a Personal Care Assistant**
- Company pension scheme
- Enhanced bank holiday pay
- Ongoing support from a dedicated Regional Care Lead and Nurse
- 24/7 on-call support
- Career development opportunities and personal development plan
- Employee benefits including: a Blue Light discount card, Long Service Awards, PA of the Quarter Awards and wellbeing options including 24/7 confidential support provided by Spectrum Life

**The role of this Personal Care Assistant**

Our personal care assistants join our client’s support team, providing reliable, essential care and support in their home. You will be employed by HomeCareDirect on behalf of the client and your focus will be to support them only. We have 2 roles available for our client as follows:
**Post 1)** Monday to Friday - 36 hours per week - shifts between 08:00 - 20:00 - £16.15 per hour

**Post 2)** Waking Nights - 36 hours per week on the following set shifts: Thursday - £16.15 per hour, Saturday and Sunday 20:00 - 08:00 - £19.23 per hour

**About the Client and Duties**

We are looking for exceptional, dedicated, skilled personal care assistants to join our clients existing care team. Our client has complex care needs and lives in his own home with his wife, who is his main carer.

As a member of the caring team, you'll be responsible for a wide range of tasks that can vary day to day, so an amount of flexibility is required. Some of the main duties include:

- Administration of medication
- Moving and Handling with Hoist
- Gastrostomy Care / PEG feeding
- Personal Care
- Assisting in the community
- Administrative duties
- Light housework

Ideally, you would also have previous experience with Status Epilepticus and practical experience of giving Buccal Midazolam and be able to identify and understand a medical emergency. It is our clients preference to have non-smokers and you must be ok working with cats in the family home.

**Requirements**:
**Training and Support**:
We provide comprehensive, paid training to CQC standards covering:

- Full induction
- Safeguarding Adults
- Health & Safety / First Aid / Food Hygiene
- Moving & Handling with Hoist
- Gastrostomy Care / PEG Feeding

All training must be completed before the start date, with training hours paid at minimum wage

**Essential Requirements**:

- You should have excellent communication skills
- You will be friendly and dynamic with a strong personality and common sense
- You should have at least 6 months of recent complex care experience, which will include dealing with seizures, PEG feed, catheter and administering medication
- ** For day shifts** - you must be flexible across all weekday days as shifts can include working on any day Monday to Friday
- ** For night shifts** - you must be female only
- You must be happy to work with cats being in the family home
- Commitment to long-term, person-centred care
- You must be reliable, compassionate and committed to respecting confidentiality

**Desirable Requirements**
- Non-smokers only
- Experience with status seizures

**Benefits**:
Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.

**We do not provide sponsorship.