Support Worker

Job summary

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

We have recently gained a new package of care bringing many fresh and exciting opportunities to join our new team in Buxton on a two-to-one- basis.

We are looking for compassionate and committed Support Workers/Healthcare Assistants, who are passionate about delivering the highest quality two-to-one care for our service user, building positive relationships with them and their family while enabling them to live as independently as possible in their own home.

Our service user is a very sociable girl in her late teens who lives with her family in Buxton and requires support throughout the day on a 2:1 basis to support her complex care needs.

She loves spending quality time with her family and friends, listening to upbeat, pop, and dance music, going shopping, visiting the library and enjoys watching videos of herself and looking back at photographs.

Your day will start with collecting her from her educational setting using her adapted vehicle, accompanying her home, once you are home you will begin to settle her starting her night time routine. This will include providing support with personal care, moving, and handling, administering medications, and attending to her clinical needs when required.

Main duties of the job

On a Weekend you will be required to assist her with enjoying her hobbies, interests and accessing her social activities, this will include going swimming as she loves water therapy, being out and about in her wheelchair, visiting the farm, she loves being around the horses and generally socialising with her friends.

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

It is essential to hold a valid driving licence for this position as our service user does have an adapted vehicle

We have the following shifts available;

• Full Time & Part Time Days
• 2:30pm-9:30pm
• Alternate Saturday and Sundays are essential for this position

Take a look at our pay rates

Weekdays: £13.00 per hour (£91.00 approx. per 7-hour shift)

Saturday & Sundays: £14.00 per hour (£98.00 approx. per 7-hour shift)

Bank Holiday: £15.00 per hour (£105.00 approx. per 7-hour shift)

This is a personally rewarding role where you can build on your skills and experience, whilst delivering exceptional care and support to our service user, 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