Care Assistant

Advantage Healthcare; Ashington; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantage Healthcare, part of CCH, seeks a Complex Care Assistant to support a young man with cerebral palsy in Ashington. You will receive full training and clinical support to cover areas such as tracheostomy care, ventilation, PEG feeding, and seizure management.

Join a caring team focused on meaningful interaction, personal care, and daily living support, with opportunities to grow your knowledge and experience in complex care. Training included.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a complex care assistant role is advantageous.
• Experience with PEG feeding, C-Pap ventilation support, seizure management, and moving & handling equipment.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care and social interaction for a young man with cerebral palsy.
• Administer medications via PEG.
• Support seizure management and monitoring.
• Assist with moving and handling equipment as needed.

Job description

Join our team as a Complex Care Assistant and take the opportunity to enhance your skills with full training and clinical support in areas such as tracheostomy care, ventilation, seizure management, PEG feeding, and more. You'll be supporting a young gentleman in his early twenties with cerebral palsy, working alongside a caring team to provide personal care, medication via PEG, seizure support, and meaningful social interaction. Every day brings something new, and you'll be making a real difference in someone's life while growing your own knowledge and experience in complex care.

Previous experience in a complex care assistant role is extremely advantageous, especially involving the following clinical tasks:

• PEG feeding.
• C-Pap ventilation support.
• Medication and protocols for seizure management.
• Moving & Handling Equipment.

We are CCH. With 14,000 colleagues across 32 care companies, we have one purpose: to make sure no one in need of care is ever forgotten or left behind. We're not only changing lives, we're transforming the care sector. Our people-first approach puts care professionals at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is simple: to be the best place to work in care.

What makes CCH a great place to work?

• 5,243 care professionals have referred a friend to join our company.
• 135 internal promotions were earned in just 12 months
• Every Operational Director began their career as a care professional

At Advantage Healthcare, part of CCH, we live by our values of Community, Courage, and Heart and we're looking for like-minded people to join our growing Complex Care team in Ashington, near Pulborough.