Health Care Assistant - Days & Nights

Role Overview & Responsibilities

Nursing Direct are looking for enthusiastic and motivated candidates who are passionate in their work and making a difference within the care sector. The role itself can be seen as an exciting time for any candidates looking for new challenges with many opportunities for personal and career development as well as excellent, market leading rates of pay.

Nursing Direct have a new homecare package in the Merton area for a young girl who has been diagnosed with the following:

• · Quadraplegic Cerebral Palsy
• · Severe encephalopathy from birth
• · Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
• · Hip displacement
• · Dystonia
• · Seizure disorder, Absence Seizures, previously had Tonic-Clonic Seizures
• · Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
• · Scoliosis
• Non verbal but can communicate basic needs with facial expressions and emotions

Her care requirements include:

• Needs carers to attend to her personal care, her movement and positioning
• Needs medication administered via a mickey button, as well as regular feeds
• Occasionally needs suctioning, more so in winter
• Needs monitoring overnight
• Requires overnight oxygen due to not tolerating NIPPY – 1L/min via nasal cannula
• Needs assistance with following her physiotherapy plan and stretches on a daily basis
• Needs staff to interact and engage with her, play games, read her stories etc.

Benefits

- Weekly pay (get paid every Friday)
- Holiday pay
- Flexible hours to suit you
- Referral Bonus Scheme (refer a friend, £50 per Carer, £100 per Nurse**)
- Ongoing professional training and development
- Excellent Pay Rates

Requirements for HCA’s:

-MINIMUM of 1 months UK Healthcare experience
-MUST be hardworking and adaptable by responding quickly to changes
-MUST be passionate about high quality individual and teamwork
-Medication administration trained
-PEG experience
-Seizure management experience
-Suctioning experience
-Oxygen management experience

Nursing Direct are a homecare provider specialising in providing care and support to adults and children in their own homes. We provide high quality care for service users with a wide range of health and mental health conditions. We supply Nurses, Carers, Support Workers and Allied staff to our Homecare clients with shift flexibility to suit you.

We understand that everyone should be given the opportunity to live as independently as possible so we offer round the clock care, ensuring the right care team are in place. We take pride in our care provision, and we take care of our nursing staff.

**Terms and Conditions Apply

Please note – Nursing Direct is a UK based agency and are only able to offer work in the UK. We require all applicants to be living in the UK with UK right to work to accept your application with our agency. Also, we are not set up to provide VISA sponsorships so to avoid disappointment please only apply if you meet the above criteria.

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Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £13.00-£16.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Experience:

• suctioning: 1 year (required)
• Medication administration: 1 year (required)
• Peg: 1 year (required)
• epilepsy: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: FC13042023A