Complex Care Assistant (2 waking nights required)
| Posting date: | 29 March 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £12.18 to £14.83 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Blue Light Card, Pension |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 April 2024 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH10 4AA |
| Company: | Prestige Nursing + Care |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | EDI-COM-03/24_1711699738 |
Summary
Complex Care Assistant 12 hours requirement (2 waking nights)
Edinburgh
Pay Rate:
- Competitive pay rate
- Weekly Pay
Shift Pattern:
- Waking Nights
- 20:00-08:00
- Minumum 2 nights per week,
Who will you be helping to make life better for?
Our client is 21-yr-old male who has an outgoing personality and loves meeting new people. He is chatty, has an interest in buses and cars, enjoys watching children's programmes, building with lego and going swimming. We are looking for two care assistants with experience in supporting clients with seizures, learning disabilities, epilepsy, stoma, and peg, however full training will be given to the right candidate. A driver would be an advantage but is not essential.
Your role will include:
- Administering medication through peg
- Monitoring and supervising sats and seizure activity
- Stoma care
- Support and assist with night routine and Personal care
- Maintaining and updating reports such as care plans
Being employed as a Carer by us means:
- Paid post-employment shadow shifts practical and e - learnings are paid at national minimum wage.
- A variety of shifts to suit your lifestyle
- Work with our own clients, no agency work.
- Pension scheme
- Blue light card
- Free PVG check
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
- Continued professional development to support you & your career
- Holiday pay
- Refer with the Care Friends mobile app and earn extra money!"
- Employee Assistance line - available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
- Support from your local branch team and out of hours support.
We're looking for:
- Paid previous experience as a care assistant is essential
- Excellent communication skills
- A driver's licence is an advantage but not essential
- Good professional and personal references
In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced DBS/PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines. All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting Equal Opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.
Prestige Nursing & Care are unable to provide Sponsorship for overseas candidates. Applicants must have proof of right to work in the UK. It is a requirement to provide an overseas police check dated within the last 3 months of being in the UK if you have lived outside of the UK for longer than a year in the last 5 years.
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Prestige Nursing & Care reserve the right to close this role early.
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