Healthcare Assistant

**Healthcare Assistant, Stockport, Greater Manchester**:
**Job details**:
Job Ref
22831

Pay Rate (ph)
£13.50 - £17.50

Location
Stockport, Greater Manchester

Work Patterns
Full Time, Days, Nights, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays,

Driver Required
No

**Job description**:
**Are you a nurturing and dedicated individual who thrives from supporting and working with Adults?**

**If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you**

If you are an experienced Healthcare Assistant looking to expand your skills and knowledge into complex care or if you already have complex care experience, this could be the perfect job role for you

We are looking for compassionate and committed Healthcare Assistants in Stockport, who are passionate about delivering the highest quality one-to-one care for our service user, building positive relationships with them and their family while enabling them to live as independently as possible in their own home. Whether it's assistance with daily activities, clinical care support, or companionship.

**Meet our Service user**

Our service user is a young man in his early 20s who lives with his family in Stockport and requires support with his complex care needs throughout the day and night on a 1:1 basis.

He has a friendly personality, a great sense of humour and a very loving nature. He has a zest for life and an appetite for fun, laughter, and joy.

He enjoys watching TV, listening to music, playing on his iPad and loves the interaction and engagement with his family and care team.

Throughout the day you will provide support with his personal care, moving and handling, attending to his clinical care requirements and assisting him to enjoy his hobbies and interests. You will prioritise his safety, overall, wellbeing and provide a supportive environment for him to thrive.

Throughout the night you will provide support with his personal care, repositioning, make close observations and attend to his clinical care needs when required. Providing support and reassurance when needed to promote a restful night’s sleep.

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

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

**We have the following shifts available;**
- Full Time Days and Nights Available
- 3 - 4 shifts per week
- Days
- Will be a mixture of early, Mid-day and late afternoon.
- Nights: 8:30pm
- 7:30am
- Alternate weekends are needed for this position

**Take a look at our payrates**

Weekdays: £13.50 per hour (Approx. £135.00 based on a 10-hour shift)

Weeknight: £14.00 per hour (£154 approx. per 11-hour shift)

Saturday: £14.50 per hour (£159.50 approx. per 11-hour shift)

Sunday: £15.00 per hour (£165 approx. per 11-hour shift)

Bank Holiday: £17.50 per hour (£192.50 approx. per 11-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 user, really making 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