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Healthcare Assistant

NHS

Job Description

Job summary

We are seeking dedicated Healthcare Assistants who are passionate about providing personalised care and support to our service user.

Benefits of joining our team include competitive pay rates, confirmed rotas, and full clinical training. Whether you have experience in complex care or are eager to learn, we want to hear from you!

By working with us as a Healthcare Assistant, youll be a valued member of a compassionate team dedicated to caring for a woman in her 40s, at her home in Birmingham.

Our service user enjoys visiting charity shops to hunt for bargain deals and attending her local book club once a week. Your role? To provide essential day-to-day care and help her participate in all the activities she loves.

This isn't just a job it's a chance to have a significant impact on our service users life.

Please note, our service user has specifically requested female staff for their team.

Main duties of the job

Pay Rates:

  • £13.00 - £15.00 per hour
  • Approx. £156 - £180 (per 12-hour day shift)

Shifts Available:

  • Part Time Days
  • 8am 8pm
  • 2 shifts per week

Essential Experience:

  • 3 months previous care experience
  • Medication administration
  • Personal care
  • Moving and handling
  • Valid Drivers Licence

Due to the nature of our vacancies, service users have the right to request either female or male staff.

Apollo Home Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer, advertising numerous vacancies on behalf of our service users and these specific requirements do not reflect the views of our organisation.

About us

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 - Weekly
  • Holiday pay
  • Excellent rewards and recognition scheme
  • Opportunity to work with other service users in the area*
  • Ongoing professional training and development

Job responsibilities

The role of a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) is to work without direct supervision in the home of the service user providing care and support including personal, social, and domestic support whilst adhering to the service users individual care and support plan.

The aim of the position is to enable service users to remain safely in their own home with as much independence as possible.

Alongside providing care and support in a professional, discreet, and caring manner, always ensuring the service users right to privacy and dignity is maintained

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • 3 months previous care experience
  • Medication administration
  • Personal care
  • Moving and handling
  • Valid Drivers Licence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Apollo Home Healthcare

Address

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Please note we are unable to supply the actual address

The area below is where the role is located:

Birmingham, West Midlands

B14 5NJ

Employer's website

https://www.apollohomehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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