Apollo Home Healthcare
Healthcare Assistant
Are you passionate about enhancing a child’s everyday life and enhancing your skills in providing complex care?
If so, how about joining Freddie’s team!
Freddie lives in Leominster and requires 24-hour care, he is looking for people to join his care team who have a genuine interest in working with children and who can support him and his family.
You will be supporting him at his fun filled family home engaging in general play and assisting him with accessing the community.
He requires committed and reliable individuals, who he and his family can build a strong trusting relationship with.
Freddie is a happy, very smiley 11-year-old boy who responds well to his care team and thrives off their interactions. He is developing each day and achieving more with the support of his carers and family.
He can express his needs with the help of his communication aids, enjoys his arts and crafts at home, loves socialising with his family and friends and loves going out as much as possible.
It is important to Freddie and his family that he makes his own decisions, and we look for our carers to help support and encourage him while enhancing his everyday life.
We require you to have some care experience that includes providing personal care, moving and positioning but we offer full comprehensive training with his clinical care needs: This can include but is not limited to:
- Tracheostomy Care
- Ventilation management
- Personal Care
- Moving & Handling
- Gastrostomy Care (PEG feed)
We can offer a variety of shifts covering Days and Nights over 7 days a week and require all applicants to work flexibly across these.
- Days and Nights
- 7am-7pm and 7pm-7am
Full Time contracts can also be offered for this position (36 hours), along with additional hours if wanted
Other benefits include
- DBS paid for with all contract placements
- Up to £15 travel expense paid with each shift
- £300 loyalty bonus paid after 6 months of service
Take a look at our pay rates!
Weekdays £14.00 per hour Approx. £168 per 12 hour shift
Weeknights £15.00 per hour Approx. £180 per 12 hour shift
Saturdays £16.00 per hour Approx. £192 per 12 hour shift
Bank Holiday £18.00 per hour Approx. £216 per 12 hour shift
This is a personally rewarding role where you can build on your clinical skills and experience, whilst delivering exceptional care and support to our service user and really making an impact on his day-to-day life.
This is a personally rewarding role where you can build on your clinical skills and experience, whilst delivering exceptional care and support to our service user and their family.
It is incredibly important to us that we reward and recognise the commitment and dedication of our healthcare staff, as they are at the forefront of the services we deliver for our clients.
We have developed an industry-leading reward and recognition scheme that we are extremely proud of which offers minimum pay rates from £14.00 per hour in this area and a fantastic loyalty reward scheme. Rewarding at months 6 and 12 and entered into quarterly prize draws.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: £14.00-£18.50 per hour
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Night shift
Application question(s):
- Do you have at least 3 months experience working in care and or childcare?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
To apply for this job please visit uk.indeed.com.