Rehabilitation Support Worker (Maternity Cover)
Rehabilitation Support Worker (Maternity Cover)
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Rehabilitation Support Worker (Maternity Cover)
Location: Bramcote Nottingham East Midlands
Hours: 36 hours a week Fixed Term
Pay: 19.00 to 21.00 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 maternity leave until April 2026 and is for 36hrs a week however there is a possibility that the role could become permanent. The hours of work will be between 8am and 8pm Friday to Sunday to suit the needs of the client.
About the Client and Duties
This is a rewarding opportunity to support a young man with a brain injury as he lives independently at home. Your role will be to empower him to lead an active and fulfilling life by providing personal care companionship and assistance in engaging with a diverse range of multidisciplinary therapies.
A key aspect of this role involves supporting him in social and sporting activities helping him build meaningful connections and assisting with daily living tasks such as meal preparation support with health & fitness diary management managing finances.
We are seeking a compassionate and proactive individual to work closely with him his family and therapists to enhance his quality of life to the fullest.
You should be able to demonstrate core values that align with our clients which demonstrate a willingness to learn honesty and integrity and living life to the full.
You will ideally have experience working in a similar role and have a good level of physical fitness to support effective manual handling. You must be compassionate trustworthy and able to work with initiative within a family home who have dogs.
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
- Personal care / Pressure Area Care / Gastrostomy Care
- Medication Administering / MCA & DOLS
- Brain Injury Awareness / Dysphagia / Dysarthria
All training must be completed before the start date with training hours paid at minimum wage
Requirements:
- Driver with a full clean UK driving licence who can drive an adapted vehicle (van sized)
- Previous care experience
- Excellent verbal nonverbal and written communication skills
- Good level of physical fitness
- Happy to work in a family home with dogs
- Nonsmoker due to working in a family home
- 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.
care experience desirable, driver
Education
Care experience desirable, driver
Employment Type
Full Time
