Male Care Assistant
Minimum £10.50 per hour with weekly pay ( enhanced bank holiday rate)
New Brighton areas.
Full Time
Are you new to working within care and have a passion to help and support people, whilst also expanding your own knowledge?
Are you currently working within care and would like to develop your skills and move towards complex care?
We have an exciting vacancy within the local Liverpool area for a Care Assistant to join our team and develop their care skills, working alongside our Branch Nurses and Care Staff with opportunity to progress. We are currently looking for a Care Assistant to visit our service users and assist them with medication, meal support, personal care, and socialising. In addition, this individual would have the opportunity to develop skills in areas of low-level clinical skills with further scope to train within more complex care.
Experience working within care is an advantage, but not necessary for the right candidate. You would be supporting individuals to live independently within their own homes, on a part time basis, and would have consistent individuals with whom you would build a rapport with.
Your role will include:
- Prompting and administering medication
- Helping with the preparation of meals and drinks
- Assisting with activities of daily living such domestic duties and personal care
- Maintaining and updating reports such as care plans
- Undertaking training for Complex Care Interventions - this could lead to further training to support individuals who require Suctioning, Ventilation and PEG
Being employed as a Carer by us means:
- Support from named Branch Nurse for Complex Interventions such as Rectal Medications, Bladder Wash Outs and Epilepsy Rescue Medications
- Consistent clients with scheduled visits
- Comprehensive Care and Support Plans written closely with the service users and their families
- Enhanced rates of pay on bank holidays, weekends and after 8pm each day
- 24/7 support from the branch team including an Out Of Hours telephone service
- Continued professional development to support you and your career, including fully funded NVQ levels 2 and 3 together with face-to-face support from trained care staff and Branch Nurses.
- Free uniform, DBS and PPE
- Pension scheme
- Employee assistance line - available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
- You will be paid for post-employment eLearning at £10.00 per hour
- 'Refer with the Care Friends mobile app and earn extra money!"
We're looking for:
- Paid previous experience as a Care Assistant is an advantage but not essential
- Excellent communication skills
- A driver's licence & your own car is essential
- Good professional and personal references
We want to make life better for more people. As a Care Assistant you'll be joining us in our continued efforts to make life better for our clients. We want to make life better for you too, so you will have a contract of employment and all the support and development you need to thrive in your role and developing your career.
Six months' paid experience in care such as a Care Assistant, domiciliary carer, support worker, personal healthCare Assistant, care worker or similar advantage but not essential
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