Apollo Home Healthcare

Support Worker

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Job summary

Are you looking to expand your skills and enhance your career to include providing Complex Clinical Care or do you already have Complex Care experience?

Apollo Home Healthcare are seeking experienced Healthcare Assistants to support with our service user and her complex care needs.

We are looking for dedicated and compassionate support workers and healthcare assistants in Stafford who are passionate about their job, enjoy delivering one to one support and who can build positive relationships with our service users and their families.

Our service user is a fun and outgoing lady, who loves to have a giggle.

She lives in Stafford with her husband and requires 1:1 support throughout the day.

She enjoys spending time at home, listening to music, watching films and enjoys accessing the community when she feels up to this. It is important for her to have engaging staff with a great sense of humour, who she can share a laugh and joke with.

She requires full support from her care team with mobilising and is unable to communicate verbally. She will use gestures to make her wants and needs known.

Main duties of the job

During the day, you will assist her to access the things she enjoys hobbies, interests and accessing her social activities, as well as meeting her care needs, this could include personal care and supporting with her mobility when required.

It is important that she feels comfortable around her team, and that she is involved in her care at all times.

Please note, it is essential that you are a driver with access to a vehicle.

Our service user has specifically requested for female staff to work on their team.

We have the following shifts available;

  • Part Time Days
  • 8am 8pm
  • Every Other Thursday & Saturday
  • Extra Hours Available if Working Across Multiple Packages

Take a look at our pay rates

Weekdays: £13.00 (£156 approx. per 12 hour shift)

Saturday: £13.50 (£162 approx. per 12-hour shift)

Bank Holiday: £15.00 (£180 approx. 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 her day-to-day life.

Apollo Home Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and we advertise a high volume of vacancies on behalf of our clients.

Due to the nature of the vacancies we recruit for, our clients have the right to request whether they wish for female or male staff to work on their team.

These specific requirements do not reflect the views of our organisation.

About us

We specialise in the provision of highly complex clinical care services delivered in the homes of service users.

We are passionate about delivering the highest standard of care and we recognise that our Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers are integral to doing this.

In return for your hard work and dedication you will receive:

  • Flexible hours to suit*
  • Confirmed rotas
  • Excellent rates of pay - Weekly
  • Holiday pay
  • Excellent rewards and recognition scheme
  • Opportunity to work with other service users in the area*
  • Ongoing professional training and development

Details

Date posted

04 April 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£13 to £15 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

E0023-20566-STAFFORD

Job locations

1

Please note we are unable to supply the actual address

The area below is where the role is located:

Stafford, Staffordshire

ST17 4NA


Job description

Job responsibilities

The role of a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) is to work without direct supervision in the home of the service user providing care and support including personal, social, and domestic support whilst adhering to the service users individual care and support plan.

The aim of the position is to enable service users to remain safely in their own home with as much independence as possible.

Alongside providing care and support in a professional, discreet, and caring manner, always ensuring the service users right to privacy and dignity is maintained

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role of a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) is to work without direct supervision in the home of the service user providing care and support including personal, social, and domestic support whilst adhering to the service users individual care and support plan.

The aim of the position is to enable service users to remain safely in their own home with as much independence as possible.

Alongside providing care and support in a professional, discreet, and caring manner, always ensuring the service users right to privacy and dignity is maintained

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • 3 months previous care experience
  • Medication Administration
  • Personal Care
  • Moving and Handling

Desirable

  • Cerebral Palsy awareness
  • Dystonia awareness
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • 3 months previous care experience
  • Medication Administration
  • Personal Care
  • Moving and Handling

Desirable

  • Cerebral Palsy awareness
  • Dystonia awareness

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Apollo Home Healthcare

Address

1

Please note we are unable to supply the actual address

The area below is where the role is located:

Stafford, Staffordshire

ST17 4NA


Employer's website

https://www.apollohomehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Apollo Home Healthcare

Address

1

Please note we are unable to supply the actual address

The area below is where the role is located:

Stafford, Staffordshire

ST17 4NA


Employer's website

https://www.apollohomehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Team

jobs@apollohomehealthcare.com

01902847111

Details

Date posted

04 April 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£13 to £15 an hour

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

E0023-20566-STAFFORD

Job locations

1

Please note we are unable to supply the actual address

The area below is where the role is located:

Stafford, Staffordshire

ST17 4NA


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