Children's Healthcare Assistant

Job Ref
20868

Pay Rate (ph)
£12.00-£14.50

Location
Nelson, Lancashire

Work Patterns
Part Time, Nights, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays,

Driver Required
No

Job description

Are you passionate about enhancing a child or young person’s everyday life?

Would you like to progress your career by working with children who require complex clinical care?

Apollo Home Healthcare are currently recruiting for Healthcare Assistants who have a genuine interest in working with children and or young people, to help support a little girl based in Burnley.

Our service user is a pre-school child who requires support throughout the night on a part time basis.

She is a happy individual who has recently started attending a sensory play facility where she will continue to develop and take part in the activities she enjoys, such as her musical toys, ceiling lights and nursery rhymes.

When you arrive on shift our service user will already be in bed, your role as her dedicated team will be to assist her on a 1:1 basis with her care needs. This can include carrying out regular repositioning, personal care and offering reassurance and soothing her back to sleep.

Experience in working waking night shifts is preferred but is not essential

Our service user has specifically requested for female to work on their team.

Essential Experience Required

• 3 months previous care experience
• Personal Care
• Moving and Handling
• Medication Administration

Desirable Experience

• Epilepsy Awareness
• Oxygen administration
• Oral suctioning
• Gastrostomy Care (PEG)

We have the following shifts available;

• Part Time- Minimum 20 hrs per week
• Nights- 10pm-8am

Take a look at our pay rates

Weeknights £12.00 per hour Approx. £120 per 10-hour shift

Weekends £12.50 per hour Approx. £125 per 10 hour shift

Bank Holiday £14.50 per hour Approx. £145 per 10-hour shift

This is such a fulfilling role that will give you job satisfaction every day by making a difference to each of our service users lives.

Apollo Home Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and we advertise a high volume of vacancies on behalf of our clients.

Due to the nature of the vacancies we recruit for, our clients have the right to request whether they wish for female or male staff to work on their team.

These specific requirements do not reflect the views of our organisation.