Healthcare Assistant- Permanent Contract, Blackpool, Lancashire

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 fun, loving young girl, who lives with her family in Blackpool and requires care throughout the night on a 1:1 basis to support her complex care needs.

She has a cheeky sense of humour, very sociable who loves to chat to others. She enjoys playing and exploring, baking, listening to music, spending time with her friends, and loves having hair plaited.

A key aspect of this role involves supporting all aspects of her care and being vigilant to her needs. This includes personal care, repositioning, tending to her clinical needs and carrying out regular observations.

You will sit with her throughout the night to monitor her closely, carry out frequent repositioning and tend to her personal care needs as required. Should she wake, you will offer comfort and reassurance to promote a restful environment for our service user.

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

Our ideal candidate will be pet friendly as our service user does have a pet cat at home

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

• Part Time Nights- 2 shifts per week
• 10:00pm - 8:00am

Take a look at our pay rates

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