Childrens Care Assistant

Advantage Healthcare Limited; Basildon; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Complex Care Assistant in Basildon. This role offers the chance to develop skills in tracheostomy care, ventilation, and seizure management while providing vital support to clients with complex health needs. Work with a dedicated team to enhance client lives and your own clinical knowledge.

Benefits

Maternity/Paternity leave

Paid annual leave

Refer a friend scheme

Enhanced DBS check

Qualifications

• Experience in tracheostomy, peg feeding, suctioning and caring for non-verbal clients advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide overnight care, monitoring with clinical observations, personal care, and medication management.
• Maintain tracheostomy care for the client.

Skills

Experience in tracheostomy

Experience in peg feeding

Experience in suctioning

Caring for non-verbal clients

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Shifts Available: Fridays & Saturdays: 9pm - 9am

What we offer

Advantage Healthcare is part of City & County Healthcare Group. 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.

The client is a child who requires throughout the night care, monitoring with clinical observations, repositioning, maintaining personal care and medication whilst also providing tracheostomy care.

Qualifications

What you’ll need

Experience in tracheostomy, peg feeding, suctioning and caring for non-verbal clients would be advantageous.