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Job Description
Support Worker
Location: Worthing Brighton South East
Hours: Post 1: 36hours per week (days) Post 2: 36hours per week (nights)
Pay: 16.15 to 19.23 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. We have 2 roles available for our client as follows:
Post 1) Monday to Friday 36 hours per week shifts between 08:00 20:00 16.15 per hour
Post 2) Waking Nights 36 hours per week on the following set shifts: Thursday 16.15 per hour Saturday and Sunday 20:00 08:00 19.23 per hour
About the Client and Duties
We are looking for exceptional dedicated skilled personal care assistants to join our clients existing care team. Our client has complex care needs and lives in his own home with his wife who is his main carer.
As a member of the caring team youll be responsible for a wide range of tasks that can vary day to day so an amount of flexibility is required. Some of the main duties include:
- Administration of medication
- Moving and Handling with Hoist
- Gastrostomy Care / PEG feeding
- Personal Care
- Assisting in the community
- Administrative duties
- Light housework
Ideally you would also have previous experience with Status Epilepticus and practical experience of giving Buccal Midazolam and be able to identify and understand a medical emergency. It is our clients preference to have nonsmokers and you must be ok working with cats in the family home.
Requirements
Training and Support:
- Full induction
- Safeguarding Adults
- Health & Safety / First Aid / Food Hygiene
- Moving & Handling with Hoist
- Gastrostomy Care / PEG Feeding
- You should have excellent communication skills
- You will be friendly and dynamic with a strong personality and common sense
- You should have at least 6 months of recent complex care experience which will include dealing with seizures PEG feed catheter and administering medication
- For day shifts you must be flexible across all weekday days as shifts can include working on any day Monday to Friday
- For night shifts you must be female only
- You must be happy to work with cats being in the family home
- Commitment to longterm personcentred care
- You must be reliable compassionate and committed to respecting confidentiality
- Nonsmokers only
- Experience with status seizures
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.
Complex Care Experience, excellent communication skills, female only for nights, happy to work with cats
Employment Type
Full Time
