Company Description

Location: Stockton-on-Tees, UK

Pay Rate: £14.30 per hour

Shifts Available: 08.30 – 15.15  Monday – Friday term time only 

Bring your caring and compassionate attitude to our fantastic team.

As a Advantage Healthcare Care Assistant, you’ll deliver award winning care to support our clients in their own homes to maintain their independence, dignity and self-worth. Every day is different!

Benefits for our Care Assistants

As a care professional, you'll get:

• Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay
• Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement
• Death in Service Payment
• Pension scheme
• Benefits and Well-being Platform
• 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Refer a friend scheme – earn £300 per referral!
• Blue Light Card eligibility – exclusive staff discounts at big brands for you
• Local work and paid mileage
• Paid training – online and face to face
• Self-development – progression opportunities
• Access to our in-house app
• Work for the largest care company in the UK!
• No experience necessary
• Book an interview at a time and date to suit you!

Job Description

Our paediatric client has a chronic lung condition and fitted with a tracheostomy and PEG. You will be supporting them during the school day with their nutritional needs, communication and ensuring their airway is safe and managed whilst eating and drinking, encouraging the client to eat and drink but when required giving them medication and fluids through their PEG.  Our client needs support to participate in school life and this is an ideal role for someone looking for term time only role.

Qualifications

Experience in Health and Social Care is required with experience of caring for a tracheostomy. Nurse led training will be provided to care for this client.

Additional Information

Why choose us?

We're an equal opportunities employer. Thanks to the commitment of our health care assistants we see extraordinary achievements happen every day. We are transforming the care industry by working smarter, using innovative tech and driving forward positive change. As the largest care company in the UK, we have care assistant vacancies across the country and we offer a world of career opportunity, choice and security.

Keywords: Carer, Care Assistant, Care Professional, Care Worker, Healthcare Assistants, Support Workers