Location: On site / Harlow, UK
Job Type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and Subsector: Medical & Healthcare | Healthcare Assistants
Hourly Fixed Salary: £14.00
Salary Details: £17.93
Do you want to help others lead a more fulfilling life? Are you interested in learning new skills? Are you looking for consistent work in care, where you can choose your regular shift pattern with minimal travel?
At HFH Healthcare, we meet the growing need for complex care by providing specialist nurse-led services to adults & children in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes. Working in partnership with NHS Continuing Healthcare teams, our enhanced level of specialist clinical support enables people to remain at home even when the level of healthcare required is highly complex.
We deliver care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Our client is a female, 28 years old, with PEG-feeding and seizure management (epilepsy).
Job Description:
We are recruiting enthusiastic, reliable, and adaptable carers for Days and Night shifts within the Harlow area.
12-hour shifts Days 8am - 8pm are available.
12-hour shifts Nights 8pm - 8am are available.
6 months of previous care experience is preferable; however, full training, supervision, and support are given to all successful candidates.
MUST HAVE A UK DRIVING LICENCE
Our carer development centre comprises interview and training rooms, and specialist and fully equipped skills labs for bespoke training to cover a wide range of client-specific needs, including:
* Tracheostomy care
* Invasive and non-invasive ventilation
* Cough assist
* Autonomic Dysreflexia
* Oxygen therapy and monitoring
* Enteral feeding
* Epilepsy and seizure management
* Behaviours which challenge
* Complex moving and positioning
What HFH Offers:
* Candidate career focus - the satisfaction and safety of our team is our priority.
* Fast track carer onboarding process. Full support with documents, getting you ready to work sooner!
* Consistent volume of work and choice of working patterns.
* Choice of working with children and adults.
* Free specialist clinical training for complex care, bespoke onsite and in-house development with continuous clinical support.
* Continuous professional progression.
* 24-hour support from our dedicated and efficient clinical and operational teams.
* No mandatory uniform requirements.
Hourly Pay Rates: Hourly pay rates range between £14 – £17.93 p/hr*.
Typically, our client base requires ongoing care, 24 hours a day, and benefits from the continuity of a small core team of regular care staff. Our specialist carers work with one client per shift and do not travel between multiple homes. The average shift duration is 12 hours.
Where possible, we will offer you work to meet your availability. As a guide, the average carer works three shifts (36 hours) per week for us and earns £500 - £555 p/wk*.
The regular working patterns that our clients require mean this three-day-a-week work pattern equates to an average annual income of between £26,200 - £28,950*.
We employ all staff directly and manage all aspects of your pay via PAYE, rather than Limited Company or Self-employed status. This removes the need for you to employ third-party companies or calculate your own tax. PAYE also protects you from breaching IR35 tax regulations.
*Please note: This depends on their shift pattern (days/nights/weekends) and these rates shown are inclusive of holiday pay which is accumulated per hour worked.
Benefits of Working for HFH:
* Excellent rates of pay– PAYE, no additional third-party administration.
* Enhanced rates for weekends and bank holidays.
* Paid holiday.
* Company pension scheme.
* Refer a friend scheme for employees: £150 for carers, £500 for Registered Nurses.
* Free confidential wellbeing and support telephone line.
* Retail rewards & savings via the Blue Light Card scheme.
Requirements:
* You must be over 18 to apply.
* Have the right to work in the UK.
* Flexibility on travel - some shifts may require you to drive or have access to public transport.
* A good standard of English and the ability to communicate effectively.
* An enhanced DBS, which you can apply for upon registration.
Please be aware: We do not hold a UK Sponsor Licence, so we are unable to consider applicants from overseas wishing to be sponsored who do not otherwise have the right to work in the UK.
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Are you eligible to work in the UK?
What is your level of English according to the IELTS scoring system?
Why do you want to be a healthcare assistant?
Describe an example of a time you felt proud of your work with a client.
What would you contact a pharmacist for?
How would you ensure patient confidentiality and privacy in your role as Healthcare Assistant?
How would you deal with a client that is refusing their medication?
What would you do if a patient fell over?
What does the abbreviation ‘CPR’ stand for?
What does the ‘ml’ medication metrics stand for?
Scenario Questions - Please read the following passage and answer the questions based on the information provided: Mr. Johnson, a 72-year-old patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), was admitted to the hospital with worsening shortness of breath and cough. His oxygen saturation level was 88%, and he was placed on supplemental oxygen via nasal cannula. Mr. Johnson has a history of smoking for over 40 years.
What is Mr. Johnson's primary medical condition?
What is his oxygen saturation level?
What treatment intervention was initiated for him?
What is one contributing factor to Mr. Johnson's condition?
Have you been referred to this job by a current HFH Healthcare employee? No / Yes
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