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Sheffield - UK

profile Hourly Salary: £ 13 - 13
Posted on: 2 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Support Worker

Location: Sheffield South Yorkshire
Hours: 8 -12 hours Per Week

Pay: 13.00 per hour


About HomeCareDirect

HomeCareDirect is a leading national provider of personalised home care. We are dedicated to delivering safe compassionate and person-centred care while ensuring our staff receive high-quality training supervision and career development opportunities.


Why Join Us

As a valued member of our team youll enjoy:

Competitive Pay & Benefits

  • Company pension scheme
  • Enhanced bank holiday pay
  • Paid training

Ongoing Support & Recognition

  • Dedicated Regional Care Lead & Nurse support
  • 24/7 on-call assistance
  • Employee perks including:
    • Blue Light discount card
    • Long Service Awards
    • PA of the Quarter Awards
    • 24/7 confidential wellbeing support via Spectrum Life

** Please Note - Our organisation can not provide work sponsorship please do not apply for this vacancy if you require this to work in the UK **


The Role

As a Personal Care Assistant youll be part of our clients dedicated support team providing essential care in their home. Youll be employed by HomeCareDirect but will focus solely on supporting this client.


This is a lovely part-time role available for a caring funny and down to earth support worker in the Sheffield area.


This position is for 8 - 12 hours a week over 2-3 days which would include alternate Sundays but there are no Saturday shifts. The hours of work each day would fit around the other support worker in the package and between you ensure that one of you was on shift each day and cover for each other in times of sickness or holidays


About the Client & Your Responsibilities

Our client is a gentleman who has memory problems and epilepsy resulting from a brain injury. Although he has retained his sense of humour and love for comedy sitcoms music and football he needs support with prompts and reminders with everyday tasks.


This role would include supporting with attending appointments and shopping trips general help around the home and helping our client to keep his diary up to date so he has all information he needs to remind him of things. You will also help to order and organise his medication so you need to be proactive and have a sense of maturity.


No personal care is involved in this role.



Requirements

Training Provided Specific to this Client:


Induction Training
Safeguarding Adults
Health and Safety
First Aid
Food Hygiene


You will be trained to CQC standards to meet the needs of the client.



Essential Requirements Identified for this Role:

An enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this vacancy (expense to be met by HomeCareDirect)
Prepared to commit to long term care for one client in a person-centred way
Willing to be trained to CQC standards to meet the clients needs
Respect Company policies and procedures
Be reliable / non-judgemental / caring / responsible / compassionate
Committed to confidentiality and to treat the client with dignity and respect
Experience within a similar role specifically supporting someone with epilepsy
Have a supporting understanding and patient with a good sense of humor


Benefits

Contractual:


Company pension scheme
Enhanced bank holiday payments
Annual Leave is paid at 5.6weeks (pro-rata) per annum based on contracted hours


Support:

Full support and supervisions from your dedicated Regional Care Lead
Training and full support from your local HCD Community Nurse Assessor
Career pathway options
A personal development plan
24hr on-call support


Employee Benefits:

A Blue Light discount card
Long service awards
Free wellbeing options and EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) provided by Spectrum Life




This vacancy is for a personal assistant to join our clients support package to support them in their own home. We will be your legal employer on behalf of the client and you will not be asked to support other clients. All of our contracts are for permanent positions with a 6 month probationary period.

HomeCareDirect is a national service provider and industry-leading specialist in the personalisation of care at home. Registered with the Care Quality Commission HomeCareDirect provides a person-centred approach keeping clients safe at home supporting with recruitment employment and training for their staff to the highest standards meeting legal and regulatory requirements.

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.




Required Skills:

Training Provided Specific to this Client: Induction Training Safeguarding Adults Health and Safety First Aid Food Hygiene You will be trained to CQC standards to meet the needs of the client. Essential Requirements Identified for this Role: An enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this vacancy (expense to be met by HomeCareDirect) Prepared to commit to long term care for one client in a person-centred way Willing to be trained to CQC standards to meet the clients needs Respect Company policies and procedures Be reliable / non-judgemental / caring / responsible / compassionate Committed to confidentiality and to treat the client with dignity and respect Experience within a similar role specifically supporting someone with epilepsy Have a supporting understanding and patient with a good sense of humor

Support WorkerLocation: Sheffield South Yorkshire Hours: 8 -12 hours Per Week Pay: 13.00 per hour About HomeCareDirectHomeCareDirect is a leading national provider of personalised home care. We are dedicated to delivering safe compassionate and person-centred care while ensuring our staff receive ...
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Company Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Key Skills

  • Nursing Home Experience
  • Developmental Disabilities Experience
  • Direct Support
  • Computer Operation
  • Caregiving
  • Case Management
  • Special Needs
  • Training & Development
  • Child Protective Services
  • Experience with Children
  • Word Processing
  • Addiction Counseling