Health Care Assistant

Role Overview & Responsibilities

· Caring and supporting clients in a person-centred one-to-one care and support to meet individual clients’ needs in the comfort of their homes.

· Assisting clients with all activities of daily living including meal preparation (food and drink), hygiene, cleaning, shopping, bathing, showering, dressing, hair, aided walking, toileting, other personal cares.

· Treating clients with the care you would personally desire if you were in their situation – very possible you could be one day.

· Enabling clients to enjoy a quality of life, valuing, promoting, and maintaining own - independence to the best of their abilities.

· Building companionship with clients, which is key to trusted relationships with clients.

· Initiating quality time for clients to share their memories with you as per their choice.

· Assisting with prompting / administering medication as appropriate.

· Demonstrating care and compassion, making clients feel better whether they need hourly, daily, or weekly assistance due to age, illness, life changing condition, recovery or rehabilitation.

. Plus other duties as assigned by employer relative to the post

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 36 months

Salary: £10.75-£11.75 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Every weekend
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Application question(s):

• Do you have the right to work in the UK?

If yes, are you open to Skilled Worker Sponsorship in Adult and Health Care?

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (required)

Experience:

• Care work: 1 year (required)

Language:

• English (required)

Licence/Certification:

• DBS, UK DRIVING LICENCE (required)

Willingness to travel:

• 100% (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 10/07/2023
Reference ID: Appleby Care Marlow and High Wycombe
Expected start date: 17/07/2023