Complex care assistant

Prestige Nursing; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A community-based home care provider is seeking a Complex Care Assistant in Bristol. The role involves supporting a client with specialized care needs, including tracheostomy and enteral feeding. Candidates must have paid care experience and excellent communication skills. Competitive hourly pay with flexible contracts available. Training will be provided for specific tasks.

Benefits

Paid training sessions

Flexibility of zero-hour or contracted hours

Pension scheme

Paid time off to volunteer

Holiday pay

Employee Assistance line available 24/7

Qualifications

• Care experience is preferred, training provided.
• Female only due to client choice.

Responsibilities

• Support a client with tracheostomy care.
• Assist with home ventilation, enteral feeding, catheter, and stoma care.

Skills

Paid previous experience as a care assistant

Excellent communication skills

Good professional and personal references

Job description

Complex Care Assistant

£17.96 – £20.04 per hour – Weekly Pay – Mileage Paid

BS15 Kingswood – Weekend only cover – female only please

At Prestige Nursing & Care, our purpose is to provide high quality, community-based specialist home care and support. We aim to work together to achieve the goals of each of our varying clients, and to make lives better for them.

We want to make life better for you too, so you will have all the support and development you need to thrive in your role and develop your career.

We are looking for a female to join our team to support a client with the following needs:

Tracheostomy Care
Home ventilation
Enteral feeding
Catheter
Stoma

The successful person should have care experience but not necessarily complex experience as training will be provided.

Female only please due to client choice.

We’re looking for:

• Paid previous experience as a care assistant is essential
• Excellent communication skills
• Good professional and personal references.

What we offer:

• You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts
• We offer the flexibility of either a zero-hour contract or contracted hours, whichever suits your lifestyle the most.
• Work with our own clients, no agency work
• Pension scheme
• Blue light card
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
• Continued professional development to support you & your career
• Paid time off to volunteer and give back to the charities and causes that matter to you
• Holiday pay
• Refer a friend scheme
• Employee Assistance line – available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
• Support from your local branch team and out of hours support

In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake enhanced DBS/PVG, right to work, reference and employment history checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC.

Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.

As a private provider of home care in the UK, Prestige Nursing & Care is not affiliated to the NHS, as such we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of any employment visa at this time.

All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.