Senior Healthcare Support Worker – Team Leader Complex Care
We are looking for someone experienced to join our small team and help run a package of care for a 43 year old male with a severe learning disability and complex health needs, living in his own home in Rothwell, Northamptonshire.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining and updating records – care plans, MAR sheets etc.
- Training carers, providing supervisions and updating carers information
- Organising rotas, holidays and sickness cover
- Ordering and maintaining good stock levels
- Maintaining good communication between the care team and parents
- Having a good clinical knowledge and competency of tracheostomy and PEG management, epilepsy and learning disability.
Client Care Responsibilities
- Personal care – includes washing, dressing, showering, toileting
- Medication administration
- Moving and handling, positioning
- Tracheostomy and PEG management
- Social stimulation support
Work closely and maintain good communication between the care team to ensure the client has all his needs met.
Essential Experience
- Have a good clinical knowledge and experience of:
- Learning disabilities
- Tracheostomy
- PEG management
- Epilepsy
- Medication administration
- Able to drive
- You must Like dogs
- Able to cover holidays and sickness
- Initially will be required to work day shifts alongside HCA to get to know the client.
Desirable Experience
Ideally will be flexible, have good organisational skills, be an excellent communicator and happy to work alone and as part of a team.
Employment Details
Contracted Hours: 37½
Rate of pay: £17.00 an hour
Weekend working will be required.
Shift patterns are 7.15am – 7.45pm or 7.15pm – 7.45am.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential Criteria
Education/Qualifications: NVQ level 3 / Care Certificate.
Experience: Experience working within learning disability, tracheostomy, PEG.
Skills / Ability / Knowledge
- Ability to train other members of the team
- Empathy and sensitivity to client’s needs.
- Confidentiality
- Working independently and as part of a team
- Good communication skills
- Attention to detailGood observation skills
- Ability to take control of situations
- Ability to advocate for client
- Good health and fitness
- Good hygiene
Qualities / Attributes
- Caring
- Calm
- Organised
- Self‑motivated
- Positive attitude
- Able to help a non‑verbal client to communicate and access activities
Other Requirements
- Driver over 25 years of age with a clean driving licence
- Flexibility to cover in the event of sickness
- Undertake an enhanced DBS
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