Shifts:Full Time | Days: 7:00am to 8:00pm | Nights: 7:00pm 8:00am & 7:00pm -10:00am
About us
At Apollo Home Healthcare, we provide high-quality, person-centred care to people in the comfort of their own homes. Every individual we support has unique needs we tailor every care package to them, building a compassionate and skilled team around their requirements.
We live and work by the 6 Cs: Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage, and Commitment and were looking for people who share those values.
Main duties of the job
You will support a 41‑year‑old independent male who is studying for a university degree in AI and Technology, ensuring his daily personal care and mobility needs are met safely and respectfully. The role also includes maintaining his property, providing day‑to‑day support, managing clinical interventions where required, and responding flexibly to his individual care needs.
What You’ll Need
- Confident with medication, personal care, moving and handling
- Pet friendly
- Full UK driver’s licence
What We Offer
- Competitive hourly pay with enhancements for nights and weekends
- Regular confirmed rotas and flexible scheduling
- Reward & recognition programme
- Supportive management and 24/7 on‑call support
- Opportunity to grow within a values‑led, national care provider
- Our funded training, including clinical skills, comes at no cost to you, though attendance is unpaid.
Job responsibilities
The role of a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) is to work without direct supervision in the home of the service user providing care and support including personal, social, and domestic support whilst adhering to the service user’s individual care and support plan. The aim of the position is to enable service users to remain safely in their own home with as much independence as possible. Alongside providing care and support in a professional, discreet, and caring manner, always ensuring the service user’s right to privacy and dignity is maintained.
Experience
- Bowel care/management with digital stimulation, manual evacuation & suppositories.
- Indwelling catheter management (District Nurses to change 4 weekly)
- Bladder washouts daily.
- NIV 8 hours overnight via face mask.
- Reduced respiratory volume, effort & function manual cough assist, nebuliser use.
- Oral medication (assistance required)
- Full care for personal hygiene, moving & handling & transfers.
- Passive movement and exercises arms daily, legs twice weekly.
- Psychological and emotional needs.
- Blood pressure monitoring.
- Males and Females.
- Must be pet friendly.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Apollo Home Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer, advertising numerous vacancies on behalf of our clients and these specific requirements do not reflect the views of our organisation.
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