About this role
Job summary
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* **Healthcare Assistant**
* **Location:** Wigan, WN5
* **Pay Rate:** £14.00 - £17.50 Per hour
* **Shifts:** Full-time and part-time | Days & sleeping nights
**Flexibility is required to work a variety of shifts, including both day and night shifts.**
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**About us**
At Apollo Home Healthcare, we provide high-quality, person-centred care to individuals in their own homes. Every care package is tailored, with a compassionate and skilled team built around each persons needs.
**We live by the 6 Cs**:
Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage, and Commitment.
Main duties of the job
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**The Role**
We are looking for compassionate and reliable Healthcare Assistants to join a supportive and friendly care team, providing 1:1 and 2:1 support for a fun-loving 23-year-old young woman within her family home.
This is a highly rewarding role where you will build a meaningful relationship and play an important part in supporting her to live life to the fullest in a safe, positive, and engaging environment.
Every day is different, and you will support her with both clinical care and enjoyable daily activities. She particularly enjoys singing, baking, animals, especially dogs and horses and Disney.
You will support her across a variety of settings, including her family home during both day and night shifts, at college, during community outings, and throughout respite stays. This varied support will help her maintain a consistent routine while enjoying a range of activities and environments.
This is a chance to make a real and lasting difference in someones life every day.
About us
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**Key Responsibilities**
* Providing personal care with dignity and respect
* Supporting with clinical interventions
* Assisting with moving and handling
* Administering medication
* PEG feeding
* Oral suctioning
* Encouraging engagement in hobbies and daily activities
* Promoting independence, wellbeing, and quality of life
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**What Were Looking For**
* Minimum 3 months care experience
* Confidence with medication administration, personal care, and moving & handling
* Strong communication skills
* A compassionate, reliable, and proactive approach
* Pet Friendly (family home includes a dog)
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**What We Offer**
* Competitive pay with enhancements for weekends and bank holidays
* Regular confirmed rotas and flexible scheduling
* Reward & recognition programme
* Supportive management and 24/7 on-call support
* Ongoing training and development within a national, values-led provider
Our funded training (including clinical skills) is provided free of charge; however, attendance is unpaid.
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**Additional Information**
**Please note**: Due to the nature of our vacancies, clients may request male or female staff depending on their care needs.
Our client has specifically requested females only to join their care team.
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
Supporting her to attend College and at home Personal Care Medication Administration PEG feed care & management Suctioning Oral Moving and handling Hoisted ceiling track Support in the community
Desirable
Drivers preferred Females only
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
Wigan
WN5 7AT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.apollohomehealthcare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)