Support Worker (Full-Time / Part-Time)
Location: Norwich, Norfolk, East Anglia
Hours: 12hr shifts, days and nights
Pay: £14.00 per hour
About HomeCareDirect:
HomeCareDirect is a national service provider and a leader in personalised home care. We are committed to delivering safe, compassionate and person-centred care, while supporting our staff with top-quality training, supervision and development opportunities.
Benefits of being a Personal Care Assistant:
Company pension scheme
Enhanced bank holiday pay
Ongoing support from a dedicated Regional Care Lead and Nurse
24/7 on-call support
Career development opportunities and personal development plan
Employee benefits including: a Blue Light discount card, Long Service Awards, PA of the Quarter Awards and wellbeing options including 24/7 confidential support provided by Spectrum Life
The role of this Personal Care Assistant:
Our personal care assistants join our client’s support team, providing reliable, essential care and support in their home. You will be employed by HomeCareDirect on behalf of the client and your focus will be to support them only. This role is to provide personalised complex care for our client in his own home in Norwich. Offering 24 - 48hrs a week on 12-hour shifts which will be 08:00 -20:00 or 10:00-22:00, you will work on a flexible rota across all days to ensure continuity of care.
About the Client and Duties:
Our client is a gentleman in his 50's who has diabetes and whose condition of MS has progressed, which both need to be monitored on a regular basis. He suffers from chronic pain and memory loss and requires support in all aspects of mobility and daily living including personal/continence care which includes catheter care, PEG feeding, blood glucose monitoring and medication administration.
Other duties include ensuring proper hydration, bathing, performing general domestic tasks, accompanying him to appointments, following SALT and continence guidelines, and collaborating closely with other team members.
Training and Support:
We provide comprehensive, paid training to CQC standards covering:
Full induction
Safeguarding Adults
Health & Safety, Food Hygiene and First Aid
Personal / Catheter Care
Gastrostomy
Moving & Handling, Falls Awareness
Medication Care Needs, Blood Glucose Monitoring
Diabetes Awareness / Mental Health / Multiple Sclerosis
All training must be completed before the start date, with training hours paid at minimum wage
Requirements:
It is preferable that you have care experience due to our client's complex needs, however our dedicated nurse for this package will provide training and support
Knowledge and experience of diabetes and MS
Our client has a Labrador, so you should be comfortable around dogs as you will need to help care for her and be happy to take her for walks
Driver with a full UK driving licence as this role will include driving our client to appointments
You must be comfortable in a smoking environment as our client is a smoker
Commitment to long-term, person-centred care
You must be reliable, compassionate and committed to respecting confidentiality
Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.
We do not provide sponsorship.