Personal (Care) Assistant - 625JC

This vacancy is for a Personal (Care) Assistants

HomeCareDirect are industry-leading specialists in personalisation. We help a wide variety of people to take control over their care at home using personal budgets, personal health budgets, direct payments or their own funding.

Vacancy Summary:

We are looking for 8 x Personal (Care) Assistants in the Burnley area. We have full-time and part-time hours available, days/waking nights which will be 12hr shifts. Hours and shift patterns will be discussed prior to interviews.

About me:

I am a young lady who wants to be as independent as possible. I get frustrated when others make decisions about my life without involving me or when I am not listened to. I had a spinal cord injury at the age of 5 and was supported only by my mum for a significant period of time, until I wanted to attend college. My mum is the most important person in my life and I need her to be involved in my life on a daily basis.

I have friends that live away whom I like to meet up with on a regular basis. Ideally, I would like to be out and about each day and I enjoy lots of activities like shopping, going to bingo, spotting Eddie Stobart vehicles and attending concerts and events such as Blackpool Pride. I’m also a Burnley and Sunderland fan and a big Disney fan, my favourite is Mickey Mouse and I love Harry Potter. I would like to return to studying at college in the near future and also start going on holidays again.

What support I need:

I want a good support team around me, who will enable me to complete everyday activities and tasks, taking the lead from me and most importantly listening to me and trying to understand my point of view. My full team needs to be in place to enable me to return home.

You will support me socially in the community, emotionally by making me feel respected and safe and physically with my care needs.

About You And Our Requirements

You must be committed to our clients’ needs and have compassion and a desire to support in a dignified and respectful manner.

Our client requires a lot of support and you will be expected to complete comprehensive training to support this. It would be beneficial if you have previous experience of supporting clients in a care role, but you will be fully supported and trained to meet our clients’ needs so this is not essential.

You will need to complete the following training:

Spinal Injuries

Personal care

Infection control

Induction

Safeguarding

Autonomic Dysreflexia

Medication Administering

Suppositories

Manual Evac

Suprapubic catheter and bladder washouts

Nebuliser

Cough assist

NIV

Pressure area care

Postural care

Moving and handling with hoist

Tracheostomy care with inner tube changes and trachy changes

Tracheal suctioning

Shadowing shifts will be required until fully competent.

This role will require you to drive our client’s adapted vehicle, therefore you will need to have a full UK driving licence and be aged over 21yrs for insurance purposes.

This post is exempt under The Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1 - there is a genuine occupational requirement to recruit

An enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this vacancy (expense met by HomeCareDirect)

What we can offer you:

The current rates of pay are:

Weekday 8am to 8pm: £14.00 per hour

Weekend 8am to 8pm: £14.50 per hour

Waking Night 8pm to 8am: £15.00 per hour

All training and shadowing hours are paid at National Minimum Wage

Auto enrolment into a pension scheme

Enhanced Bank Holiday Payments

Full support and supervisions from your dedicated local nurse and Care Facilitator

Enhanced Pay to client support needs

Enhanced client specific training

Personal Development Plan

Blue Light Card

Long Service Awards

EAP Wellbeing Programme

• Fitness Plans
• Nutrition/Recipes
• Self Help Guides
• High Street Discounts
• 24 Hour Confidential Support

Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care