Childrens Care Assistant

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

Job summary

Join Advantage Healthcare as a Children’s Complex Care Assistant, providing vital overnight care to a young client with complex medical needs. You'll receive full training and clinical support in areas like tracheotomy and seizure management, making a meaningful difference in their life while developing your own skills.

Benefits

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Paid Annual Leave

Refer a Friend Scheme

Enhanced DBS Check

Qualifications

• Experience in childcare involving PEG feeding and suctioning.
• Ability to administer medication and monitor conditions.
• Familiarity with moving and handling equipment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the client's condition overnight and attend to her needs.
• Provide care related to gastronomy, seizure management, and oxygen administration.

Skills

Childcare Experience

PEG Feeding

Medication Administration

Using Moving and Handling Equipment

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Shifts Available: Waking Nights 10 pm - 7 am (2 Nights - 18 Hours)

Access to vehicle required due to geographical location of role.

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 Children’s Complex Care Assistant. You will receive full training and clinical support to develop skills in complex areas such as tracheotomy, ventilation, seizure management, and stoma care. We support people of all ages, in the community and at home, with conditions like Spinal Cord injury, Muscular dystrophy, acquired brain injuries, and other complex needs. Every day presents new challenges, and your work will make a real difference in clients’ lives while you develop your skills.

The client is a lovely young girl living with her mother and pet dog. She has Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy since birth, requiring gastronomy care, medication via PEG feed, seizure management, dystonia treatment, and oxygen administration.

You will monitor her condition throughout the night, attending to her needs as required.

Qualifications

What you’ll need

Experience in childcare involving PEG feeding, suctioning, medication administration, and the use of moving and handling equipment is essential.