Looking for a rewarding career in healthcare? Health Your Way CIC is hiring Health Care Assistants in Lewisham, offering part-time and full-time positions with flexible hours.
This role requires alertness and vigilance during waking shifts, ensuring the highest standard of care. Flexibility is essential to provide cover for other team members when needed.
Join a person-centered organization that empowers individuals with personal health budgets, making a real difference in their lives. Apply today to be part of a dedicated care team!
About Health Your Way
Health Your Way provides information, advice, and support to individuals with impairments who wish to take control of their care through personal health budgets and personal budgets.
Recognizing that health and wellbeing needs vary from person to person, the organization remains committed to a person-centered approach, ensuring that every individual receives the high-quality health and social care they deserve.
With a clear focus on empowerment, Health Your Way is dedicated to helping individuals make informed choices and maintain control over their care. The organization simplifies the process of accessing and managing personal health budgets, making it a seamless and stress-free experience.
Position: Health Care Assistant
Salary: £20.26 to £28.00 per hour
Job Type: Part Time
Location: Lewisham, London, England
About the Role
Are you caring, bright, enthusiastic, willing to learn a new skill and looking to join the care industry, or already an experienced carer? If so, we are looking for a night time carer to join our young son’s small support team. Experience of tracheostomy and ventilation care would be an advantage, but is not essential; full, certificated training will be provided.
The position is for 9-hour, night time waking shifts, for a 6-year-old boy who is happy, adventurous and very chatty. He has a tracheostomy and is ventilated overnight.
You will receive:
- Standard rate starting from £20.26 per hour, enhanced rate £21.81 to £28 per hour
- A pension if eligible
- 5.6 weeks per year pro rata holiday
- Full certificated training on all aspects of the role
- The option of contracted hours or a casual contract, on a Personal Health Budget
Hours available:
18 to 36 hours per week (2 to 4 night shifts)
There is the opportunity to work additional hours on occasions in relation to holidays and sickness
Opportunities to increase the number of shifts in the future
Requirements
- Being able to carry out a waking shift, staying fully alert and vigilant
- Flexibility in working hours is essential to cover other team members
- Weekend work will be required
- Some shifts over public holidays (eg. Christmas) will be required. This will be shared with other team members
- Support with use and care of tracheostomy and ventilator. The use of a suction machine and nebulisers is required. Full training provided
- Support with life skills
- An enhanced DBS check (the cost will be met by the employer)
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
Interested and qualified candidates should CLICK HERE to apply.
Application Deadline
Open until filled