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Job Description
Support Worker
Location: Blackpool North West
Hours: 24 hours a week
Pay: 14.75 to 15.00 per hour
About HomeCareDirect
HomeCareDirect is a national service provider and a leader in personalised home care. We are committed to delivering safe compassionate and personcentred care while supporting our staff with topquality training supervision and development opportunities.
Benefits of being a Personal Care Assistant
- Company pension scheme
- Enhanced bank holiday pay
- Ongoing support from a dedicated Regional Care Lead and Nurse
- 24/7 oncall support
- Career development opportunities and personal development plan
- Employee benefits including: a Blue Light discount card Long Service Awards PA of the Quarter Awards and wellbeing options including 24/7 confidential support provided by Spectrum Life
The role of this Personal Care Assistant
Our personal care assistants join our client s support team providing reliable essential care and support in their home. You will be employed by HomeCareDirect on behalf of the client and your focus will be to support them only. This role will be to cover 24hrs a week over 2 waking nights from 8pm 8am. Your shifts will be allocated on a rota basis so you should be flexible to cover as needed.
Pay rates are broken down as follows:
Monday to Friday 8pm 8am: 14.75
Saturday and Sunday 8pm 8am: 15.00
About the Client and Duties
Our client is a nonverbal 20 year old man with complex disabilities and needs. He is lively joyful and loves music and being silly. He is looking for a friendly person to join his care team who can keep him upbeat and smiling.
Support is required with personal care medication moving and handling ventilation and oxygen therapy and providing emergency aid when required.
Requirements
Training and Support:
We provide comprehensive paid training to CQC standards covering:
- Full induction
- Safeguarding Adults
- Health & Safety / First Aid / Food Hygiene
- Moving & Handling with hoist
- Personal care / Pressure area care / Sepsis awareness / Infection control
- Gastrostomy care / medication (via PEG) / Oxygen / Oral Suction / Ventilation
- Epilepsy / Learning Disabilities / Autism / Cerebral Palsy / MCA & DOLs
Requirements:
- Previous experience of working with complex care needs
- Able to be flexible and work as part of a team
- Commitment to longterm personcentred care
- You must be reliable compassionate and committed to respecting confidentiality
Benefits
Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted selected trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe effective and compassionate care.
We do not provide sponsorship.
Must have complex care experience
Education
Complex care experience required
Employment Type
Full Time
