Healthcare Assistant

**Healthcare Assistant, Preston, Lancashire**:
**Job details**:
Job Ref
23236

Pay Rate (ph)
£15.00 - £17.50

Location
Preston, Lancashire

Work Patterns
Full Time, Part Time, Nights,

Driver Required
No

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

We are looking for compassionate and committed healthcare assistants in Preston, 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 her home.

**Meet our service user**

Our service user is a charming teenage boy who lives with his family in Preston and requires support throughout the night to support his complex care needs.

He particularly loves going on walks and exploring his favourite activities with his family, friends, and care team and throughout the day enjoys attending school.

When at home he likes to relax and spend time playing on his PlayStation and watching the football.

Throughout the night you will provide support with his personal care, repositioning, attending to his clinical care needs when required and providing a peaceful environment to promote a restful night’s sleep.

Our service user loves the engagement and interaction with his care team and can communicate and express his needs and wants.

**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
- COVID vaccinations

**Desirable Experience**
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Ventilation Management

**We have the following shifts available;**
- Full Time & Part Time Nights
- 3-4 shifts per week
- 9:00pm - 7:00am
- Alternate Weekends are needed for this position

**Take a look at our pay rates**

Weeknights: £15.00 per hour - (£150.00 approx. per 10-hour shift)

Weekends: £15.50 per hour - (£155.00 approx. per 10-hour shift)

Bank Holiday: £17.50 per hour - (£175.00 approx. per 10-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