Healthcare Assistant, Blackburn, Lancashire

Job description

Are you a nurturing and dedicated individual who thrives from supporting and working with young people?

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.

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.

Meet our service user

Our service user is a young man in his teens who lives with his loving family in Blackburn.

He requires a dedicated care team to support his care needs throughout the day.

He enjoys listening to music and exploring various bright colours. He loves to go out socialising and spending quality time with his family and care team. At home he will relax in bed playing on his iPad and enjoys watching T.V, especially his favourite programme Horrid Henry.

Throughout the day you will ensure all his care needs are met, providing support with his personal care, moving and handling, being vigilant to his care needs and attending to his clinical care needs when required.

He is unable to communicate verbally and will use facial expressions to make his wants and needs known. To avoid him becoming distressed or frustrated, you will spend time to get to know his unique signals and cues.

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

Benefits of this role include

• Competitive Pay Rates
• Confirmed Rotas
• Full Clinical Training

To be successful in this role it is essential that you have experience with the following:

• 3 months previous care experience
• Personal Care
• Moving and Handling
• Medication Administration

Experience working with the following clinical needs is desirable, however is not essential to be considered for this role:

• PEG Feeding
• Nebuliser care
• Oxygen management
• Seizure management
• Experience working with nonverbal clients.

We have the following shifts available;

• Part Time Days 2-3 shifts per week
• Monday, Wednesday and Friday: Term Time only
• 9:30am - 2:30pm
• Tuesday & Thursday: 10:00am - 2:00pm
• Alternate Sundays: 12:00pm - 4:00pm

Take a look at our payrates

• Weekdays: £13.00 per hour (Approx. £65.00 per 5-hour shift)
• Weekends: £14.00 per hour (Approx. £56.00 per 4-hour shift) 
• Bank holidays: £15.50 per hour (Approx. £77.50 per 5-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.