Care Assistant

Advantage Healthcare; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Complex Care Assistant, where you will receive comprehensive training and support to enhance your skills in various complex care areas. This role offers the chance to make a meaningful difference in the lives of clients with complex needs, including children and adults with spinal cord injuries and other conditions. You'll be part of an innovative team striving to transform the care industry, ensuring every day presents new challenges and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Embrace this rewarding journey with us!

Benefits

Maternity/Paternity leave

Paid annual leave

Refer a friend scheme

Enhanced DBS check

Qualifications

• No prior care experience needed; we provide full nurse-led training.
• Ability to manage tracheostomy, PEG feeds, and medication.

Responsibilities

• Support clients with complex needs in their homes.
• Help manage daily activities and promote independence.

Skills

Care

Compassion

Resilience

Job description

Shifts Available: Lates and Nights, 3.30pm to 9.30pm and awake nights 9.30pm to 7.30am

Advantage Healthcare Limited is part of City & County Healthcare Group, one of the largest community healthcare providers. You’ll have access to all the resources, career pathways, benefits, investments, opportunities, and security that being part of City & County Healthcare Group brings. It’s the best of both worlds.

What you’ll get

• Maternity/Paternity leave
• Paid annual leave
• Refer a friend scheme
• Enhanced DBS check

Job Description

What you'll do

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your current skill base and join us as a Complex Care Assistant. You will have full training and clinical support to develop and enhance skills in various complex areas such as tracheotomy, ventilation, seizure management, and stoma care plus so much more! We care for and support people of all ages, in the community, and in their homes, with Spinal Cord injury, Muscular dystrophy, acquired brain injuries and many other complex needs. Every day will be different. And you’ll never know what challenges you’re about to face next. One thing you can be sure of though, is that you’ll be making your clients’ days brighter, whilst developing your skills and knowledge.

Our paediatric client needs support to live in their own home due to a congenital condition, you will help manage their tracheostomy, PEG feeds, medication and mobility, support them to be independent where possible and interact with rest of their family members.

Qualifications

What you'll need

Experience in care is not a requirement for this position. Just plenty of care, compassion and resilience, as we provide full nurse-led training.

Additional Information

Why choose us?

We see extraordinary achievements happen every day thanks to the talent and commitment of our people. We want to transform the care industry by working smarter, using innovative tech, and driving forward positive change. As the largest care company in the UK, we have the size and success to offer you a world of career opportunity, choice, and security. Join us on our journey and continue yours.

City and County Healthcare Group is an equal opportunities employer.