Care Assistant

ISS Healthcare; Eastbourne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Care Assistant with a leading healthcare provider, you'll deliver essential care to clients, maintaining their dignity and independence. This role requires compassion and resilience, with comprehensive training offered for complex care needs. Enjoy generous benefits including paid training, annual leave, and opportunities for progression.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Enhanced paternity pay entitlement

Death in Service Payment

Benefits and Well-being Platform

28 days annual leave (pro rata)

Cycle to work scheme

Refer a friend scheme

Blue Light Card eligibility

Paid training

Self-development opportunities

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a complex care assistant role is essential.
• Experience with Tracheostomy and Suction is ESSENTIAL.

Responsibilities

• Deliver award-winning care to clients in their homes.
• Enhance skills in areas like tracheotomy, ventilation, seizure management, and stoma care.
• Support people with complex needs such as spinal cord injury and muscular dystrophy.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Willingness to learn

Job description

Pay Rate:£15.50 per hour

Shifts Available: Various shifts are available

Bring your caring and compassionate attitude to our fantastic team.

As an Advantage Healthcare Care Assistant, you’ll deliver award-winning care to support our clients in their own homes to maintain their independence, dignity and self-worth. Every day is different!

As a care professional, you'll get:

• Enhanced occupationalmaternity and adoption pay
• Enhanced occupationalpaternity pay entitlement
• Death in Service Payment
• Benefits andWell-being Platform
• 28 days annual leave(pro rata)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Refer a friend scheme– earn £300 per referral!
• Blue Light Cardeligibility – exclusive staff discounts at big brands for you
• Local work and paid mileage
• Paid training– online and face to face
• Self-development– progression opportunities
• Access to ourin-house app
• Work for thelargest care companyin the UK!
• No experience necessary
• Book an interview at atime and date to suit you!

Job Description

Care Assistant: Role & Responsibilities

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 improve 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 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

Qualifications

Care Assistant Job: Skills & Requirement

Previous experience in a complex care assistant role is essential, the care assistant skills and attributes needed are:

• Compassion
• Resilience
• A willingness to learn
• Previous experience in complex care -Tracheostomy and Suction is ESSENTIAL !

Additional Information

Why choose us?

We're an equal opportunities employer. Thanks to the commitment of our health care assistants, we see extraordinary achievements happen every day. We are transforming the care industry by working smarter, using innovative tech and driving forward positive change. As the largest care company in the UK, we have care assistant vacancies across the country, and we offer a world of career opportunity, choice and security.

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