Live In Care Support Assistant

YOURLIFEYOURWAY; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A care service provider in London is seeking a Live In Care Support Assistant to provide support for a client with complex needs. Responsibilities include personal care assistance, medication management, and supporting the client at university. Applicants should possess good communication skills, a UK full driving license is advantageous, and prior experience in the care sector is preferred. Competitive pay and full training are provided.

Benefits

Paid annual holiday leave

Full training

Confidential employee assistance helpline

Blue Light membership for discounts

Refer a friend scheme

Online employee portal

Employee feedback surveys

Qualifications

• Must be able to work one week on, one week off.
• Possessing a UK full driving license is advantageous.
• Previous experience in the care sector is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Meet our client's complex care needs such as moving and handling.
• Support with personal care and medication administration.
• Assist attending university and family residence.

Skills

Good communication skills

Desire to care for others

Full UK driving license

Job description

Are you caring, compassionate and would like to make a difference to someone’s life? Then come and join us for a rewarding career in care.

We are looking for a Live In Care Support Assistant to come and join our team to support a client with Spinal Muscular Atrophy based in London, SW19 and SW7 postcode areas.

Full training will be given to set you on your path to being a Live In Care Support Assistant, where you will be paid a competitive rate of pay of £163.71 per day (£1146.00 per week of work) after completion of training.

Main duties of the job

This job involves Live In Care, where you will work one week on and one week off with emergency sickness cover required. You will also receive 14 hours break during your week on.

As a Live In Care Support Assistant you will be working day shifts and sleeping night shifts and will be supporting our client with his complex needs on a 2:1 basis. Our client attends University and you will be required to support him at his university halls of residence in the SW7 postcode area as well as at his family residence in the SW19 postcode area.

Your responsibilities as our Live In Care Support Assistant will include: Meeting our client's complex care needs such as moving and handling, personal care, secretion and saturation management, use of ventilation and administering medication as well as accessing the community and maintaining the home environment.

Skills and Experience required of our Live In Care Support Assistant:

You are required to have good communication skills and have a desire to care for others. Possessing a UK full driving license and having some previous experience would be advantageous.

About us

We offer excellent benefits such as:

• Good Rate of Pay
• Paid annual holiday leave
• Full training
• Confidential employee assistance helpline
• Opportunity to gain qualification in Health and Social Care
• Blue Light membership for exclusive discounts with 15,000 brand partners
• Refer a friend scheme
• Online employee portal - where information and self-service is available
• Employee feedback surveys and recognition

Person Specification

Live In Care Support Assistant

• You must be able to work one week on, one week off.
• You are required to have good communication skills and have a desire to care for others.
• Possessing a UK full driving license would be advantageous.
• Previous experience of working in the care sector.
• A good standard of spoken and written English is required for this role.
• An enhanced DBS on the update service would be beneficial for this position.

We are committed to conducting a Safer Recruitment Process to protect the people we support. Please be aware that all our vacancies are subject to pre-employment checks e.g. DBS and references.

If you would like to apply to become our Live In Care Support Assistant, please apply via our website by uploading a copy of your CV and filling in our short application form.