Rapid Response Care Assistant

Complete Care Amegreen; Bedford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading care provider as a Rapid Response Care Assistant, enhancing your skills in complex areas like ventilation and tracheostomy care. This role offers varied experiences and the opportunity to make a difference in clients' lives across a 100-mile radius while receiving full training and ongoing support.

Benefits

Maternity/Paternity leave

Paid annual leave

Refer a friend scheme

Enhanced DBS check

Qualifications

• Previous complex care experience including ventilation support and tracheostomy care required.
• Ability to care and work as part of a close-knit team.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for complex needs such as spinal cord injuries and muscular dystrophy.
• Support clients in their homes and within a community setting while on an on-call rota.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Willingness to learn new skills

Job description

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Pay Rate: £16 - £22 per hour, plus mileage

Shifts Available: 36 hours guaranteed | 8 am - 8 pm | 8 pm - 8 am

Access to vehicle required due to geographical location of the role.

What we offer

Complete Care Amegreen 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 Rapid Response 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. You’ll need to be willing to travel to various packages within a 100-mile radius and work on an on-call rota. 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.

Qualifications

What you’ll need

You must have previous complex care experience to apply for this role. This experience could include ventilation support, tracheostomy care and peg feeding. We’re interested in people with compassion and the ability to care. You’ll need to be resilient too and willing to learn new skills and develop your knowledge as part of a close-knit team.