Children's Healthcare Assistant

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 our young service users with their complex care needs.

If you are an experienced Healthcare Assistant looking to expand your skills and knowledge into complex clinical care or if you already have complex care experience, this could be the perfect job role for you!

We are looking for compassionate and committed Healthcare Assistants who are passionate about delivering the highest quality one-to-one care for our service user whilst building positive relationships with them and their family.

Our service users are two young siblings who live with their family in Birmingham, they require support throughout the day and night.

You will be clinically trained to care for both girls however, you will only be providing care on a 1:1 basis.

They enjoy playing with musical instruments, exploring sensory lights and love the interaction from there care team especially when carers sing to them.

Throughout the day your role will be to support with the morning routine at home before accompanying them to their educational setting.

We are looking for staff who are comfortable around pets as our service users have several pets within the property

Our service users have specifically requested for female staff to work on their team.

Main duties of the job

At their educational setting you will carry out daily tasks such as personal care and closely observe and tend to clinical care needs when required, ensure comfort, promote social interaction, support engagement with learning and promote ongoing development.

Throughout the night you will be required to attend to complex and clinical care needs, support with personal care, regular monitoring and offering comfort and reassurance when needed to promote a restful nights sleep.

We have the following shifts available;

• Full Time Nights
• 10:00pm - 8:00am
• Full Time Days
• Mondays & Tuesdays- 8:00am 4:30pm

Take a look at our pay rates

• Weekdays: £13.50 per hour (£114.75 approx. per 8.5-hour shift)
• Weeknights: £14.00 per hour (£140 approx. per 10-hour shift)
• Saturday: £14.00 per hour (£140 approx. per 10-hour shift)
• Sunday: £14.00 per hour (£140 approx. per 10-hour shift)
• Bank Holiday: £15.50 per hour (£155 approx. per 10-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 users.

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