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Support Worker FullTime orPartTime
Location: Woodford Green London
Hours: 48 hours a week
Pay: 13.50 to 14.50 per hour
About HomeCareDirect
HomeCareDirect is a nationalservice provider and a leader in personalised home care. We are committed to delivering safecompassionate and personcentred care while supporting our staff withtopquality training supervision and development opportunities.
Benefits of being a PersonalCare Assistant
- Company pension scheme
- Enhanced bank holiday pay
- Ongoing support from adedicated Regional Care Lead and Nurse
- 24/7 oncall support
- Career developmentopportunities and personal development plan
- Employee benefits including: aBlue Light discount card Long Service Awards PA of the Quarter Awards andwellbeing options including 24/7 confidential support provided by Spectrum Life
The role of this Personal CareAssistant
Our personal care assistantsjoin our clients support team providing reliable essential care and supportin their home. You will be employed byHomeCareDirect on behalf of the client and your focus will be to support themonly. This role will be to cover 48hrs aweek as either one fulltime post or two parttime posts.
Pay rates are broken down asfollows:
Monday to Friday 08:00 20:00 13.50 per hour
Monday to Friday 20:00 08:00 14.50 per hour (waking nights)
Weekends 14:50 per hour
All training and supervisionsare paid at 11.44 per hour
About the Client and Duties
You will be providing complexcare support as needed for our professionally and socially active creativeclient to maintain independence by assisting and facilitating our clientshealth care personal social professional educational and voluntary goals.
Essentially the role requiresyou to respect our clients autonomy and support him in performing tasks hewould perform himself if he were nondisabled as well as provide all careneeds including personal care.
You will maintain and promotethe safety of our client both at home and whilst undertaking personal socialprofessional and voluntary activities.
Requirements
Typical duties will include:
- To provide all care needsincluding personal care
- To provide medication andequipment to our client as needed
- To assist our client as neededgetting to and from appointments
To maintain areas of our clients home and vehicle to an acceptable level ofcleanliness - To check stock supplies andmaintain adequate stock levels
- To maintain and organise ourclients clothing belongings and equipment to his wishes whilst being carefuland respectful
- To ensure our clientsholistic wellbeing is supported at all times as needed
This list is notexhaustive.
This role requires careskills empathy patience and the ability to work under your own initiativewhist maintaining confidentiality and without hindering or interfering theclients wishes and activities.
Training and Support:
We provide comprehensive paidtraining to CQC standards covering:
- Full induction
- Safeguarding Adults
- Health & Safety / FirstAid / Food Hygiene
- Moving & Handling withHoist / Appliance Aid
- Medication / Ventilation Use /Nebuliser / Oral Suction
- Personal Care / GastrostomyCare / Muscular Dystrophy
All training must be completedbefore the start date with training hours paid at minimum wage
Requirements:
- This post is exempt under The Equality Act 2010Schedule 9 Part 1 there is genuine occupational requirement to recruitmalesupportworkers only
- Driver with a full clean UK driving licence
- Previous care experience preferably supporting people withphysical disabilities Gastrostomy care ventilation and moving & handling
- You should work well as part of a team be supportive kind beable to follow instructions and policies be organised and honest
- Excellent communication skills
- Ok working around cats
- Commitment to longtermpersoncentred care
- You must be reliablecompassionate and committed to respecting confidentiality
Benefits
Our organisation is committedto safe and fair recruitment safeguarding and protecting those we care for andserve. We make sure all our staff are vetted selected trained andsupervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safeeffective and compassionate care.
We do not provide sponsorship.
Employment Type
Full-Time
