Care Assistant

Company Description

Location :  Stockton-on-Tees, UK

Pay Rate :   £13.50 per hour

Shifts Available :  0800 – 1600 / 1500 – 2300 days and nights 2200 - 0900

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

What you’ll do

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your current skill base and join us as a Complex Care Assistant. You will have full training and clinical support to develop and enhance skills in various complex areas such as tracheotomy, ventilation, seizure management, and stoma care plus so much more! We care for and support people of all ages, in the community, and in their homes, with Spinal Cord injury, Muscular dystrophy, acquired brain injuries and many other complex needs. Every day will be different. And you’ll never know what challenges you’re about to face next. One thing you can be sure of though, is that you’ll be making your clients’ days brighter, whilst developing your skills and knowledge.

Qualifications

Skills & Requirement

Previous experience in a care assistant role is useful but otherwise, the care assistant skills and attributes needed are :