Childrens Care Assistant

Advantage Healthcare; Norwich; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Advantage Healthcare as a Children's Complex Care Assistant, enhancing your skills while providing care for a young boy with complex needs. This role offers comprehensive training and the chance to make a meaningful impact on clients' lives. Become part of a supportive team that values compassion and innovation in the care sector.

Benefits

Maternity/Paternity leave

Paid annual leave

Refer a friend scheme

Enhanced DBS check

Qualifications

• No prior care experience needed; full training provided.
• Must have care, compassion, and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Support a 3-year-old boy with chronic kidney disease and cerebral palsy during nighttime shifts.
• Manage repositioning, nasogastric tube, and medication.

Skills

Care

Compassion

Resilience

Job description

Shifts Available:Nights (Tuesday - Saturday) - 10 pm - 7 am

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

We're sorry, but we do not currently offer sponsorship to applicants.

Job Description

What you'll do

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your skill base and join us as a Children’s Complex Care Assistant. You can use your complex skills to support clients in tracheotomy, ventilation, seizure management, and stoma care. 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 is that you’ll be making your clients’ days brighter, whilst developing your skills and knowledge.

This role is supporting a 3-year-old little boy who suffers from chronic kidney disease and cerebral palsy. He will be under your supervisor throughout the night managing repositioning, his nasogastric tube and medication.

He loves listening to music and he's also very engaging as he likes to interact with people, especially with his family and two dogs.

Qualifications

What you'll need

You don’t need any care experience to apply for this role, 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.