Health Care Assistant - Home Care Peterborough

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We are hiring a range of skilled Healthcare Assistants to look after patients in their own homes.

Days, nights or live in Care available. This will be with the same patient in one home.

Locations will include Cambridge City, East Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire & Peterborough.

Job Description

You will provide support and enablement for service users with significant needs around the personal activity of daily living, potentially including mobility, nutrition, and personal safety.

This role may include personal care and you will be required to support and assist users in their own home by encouraging and maximising independence.

Supporting Service Users to get up/go to bed and get dressed/undressed

Supporting Service Users to wash, shower or bath including washing of hair and oral hygiene

Supporting Service Users with their toilet/continence requirements

Helping Service Users to eat their food or take a drink

Assisting Service Users to make a safe transfer or to mobilise. Service Users will have some ability to weight bear or move independently

Assisting and facilitating Service Users to take medication. Service Users will not be passive in taking medication and will have the cognitive capacity to manage their medication and to direct the Care Worker. Does not include medicines administration

Supporting Service Users’ social care needs including social interaction and some domestic activities. Domestic activities will be specifically and exclusively for the Service User and may include but are not limited to light housework, preparing meals, washing up after meal preparation, laundry, and shopping

Working towards maintaining a safe environment for Service Users, respecting Service User, and family preferences

Recognising changing mental, physical and emotional needs, and reporting appropriately.

Salary and Benefits - Rates Based on Umbrella

Day (8am-8pm) £13.84 Per Hour

Waking Night (8pm-8am) £14.70 Per Hour

Sleeping Night (8pm-8am) £13.85 Per Hour

Live-in Care Worker £969.15 Per Week

Skills Required

Healthcare Experience Essential

Willing to complete Compliance

NVQ 2/3 or 3 Months Paid Experience

UK Driving Licence desirable

Compliance/Documents

Registration forms (Online)

Basic Life Support

Manual Handling

Enhanced DBS (On update service)

Online Training

References

• We do not provide sponsorship** If you do not have some of the above documents do not worry as our compliance team will assist you to get everything in place so you can start work.
  
  

Apply today and join our team of NHS care Assistants