Healthcare Assistant

**Healthcare Assistant, Buxton, Derbyshire**:
**Job details**:
Job Ref
22361

Pay Rate (ph)
£13.00-£15.00

Location
Buxton, Derbyshire

Work Patterns
Full Time, Part Time, Days,

Driver Required
Yes

**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 care or if you already have complex care experience, this could be the perfect job role for you

**We have recently gained a new package of care bringing many fresh and exciting opportunities to join our new team in Buxton on a two-to-one
- basis.**

We are looking for compassionate and committed Healthcare Assistants, who are passionate about delivering the highest quality two-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.

**Meet our service user**

Our service user is a young girl in her late teens who lives with her family in Buxton and requires support throughout the day on a 2:1 basis to support her complex care needs.

She loves spending quality time with her family and friends, listening to her favourite music and enjoys watching videos of herself and looking back at photographs.

Your role throughout the day will be to provide support with her daily tasks including personal care, moving, and handling, being vigilant, making close observations, and attending to her clinical needs when required.

You will be required to assist her with enjoying her hobbies, interests and accessing her social activities, this will include going swimming as she loves water therapy, being out and about in her wheelchair, visiting the farm, she loves being around the horses and generally socialising with her friends.

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

**It is essential to hold a valid driving licence for this position as our service user does have an adapted vehicle**

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

**Desirable Experience**
- Learning Disability Experience
- Gastrostomy Feeding
- Epilepsy Management

**We have the following shifts available;**
- Full Time & Part Time Days
- 2:30pm-7:30pm

**Take a look at our pay rates**

Weekdays: £13.00 per hour (£65.00 approx. per 5-hour shift)

Saturday & Sundays: £14.00 per hour (£70.00 approx. per 5-hour shift)

Bank Holiday: £15.00 per hour (£75.00 approx. per 5-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