Children’s Care Assistant

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West Malling, Kent
£14.00 - £16.00 per hour
Full time
February 10, 2025

Description

Superior Healthcare needs you!

We are urgently seeking a Carer, Support Worker, or Children’s Care Assistant in West Malling and the surrounding area.

Superior Healthcare provides at-home complex care services to children, young people, and adults across the UK. Founded in 2006, we have been dedicated to supporting families who have had to make significant adjustments due to life-changing incidents or diagnoses.

The Role:

This role would be caring for an infant of the age of 7 months old. Ideally, you would have experience working with Neonatal or with non-invasive ventilation and/or oral suctioning. As a Children’s Care Assistant, you will have the opportunity to work on a long-term basis with one or a small number of clients in your local area.

Key Details:

Additional day or night shifts in or around the West Malling area will be available to suit your availability and preferred working hours.

  • Shifts: Night shifts 20:00pm – 07:00am
  • Schedule: Fixed rota with overtime options

Essential Experience:

All our team members receive a fully paid, comprehensive, week-long, classroom-based training program with practical workshops before being introduced to our clients.

This training covers all aspects of the Care Certificate and delves into skills needed to support complex clients, such as tracheostomy management and gastrostomy. Additionally, individual, client-focused training continues following the initial classroom induction.

  • PEG feeding
  • Oral suctioning
  • Tracheostomy care (preferred but not essential)
  • Ventilation
  • Epilepsy

Join Superior Healthcare:

So, whether you are a support worker, healthcare assistant or children’s care assistant in West Malling, currently working in a care home, supporting children with complex care needs, or assisting individuals with clinical requirements in the community, this is your chance to step into a new and rewarding role.

Superior Healthcare is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Employment is subject to an Enhanced DBS check and professional references.

SHCPAE

Responsibilities
Requirements
  • Confident and clear communication with the client.
  • Prioritising the client's wellbeing, including raising any safeguarding concerns.
  • Assist with clinical interventions such as PEG feeds, seizure management, oral suctioning, ventilation, and medication administration.
  • Ability to work night shifts.
  • Full right to work within the UK.
  • Full UK driving license with access to a car.
  • Must be able to commit to at least two shifts per week.
  • Recent complex care experience, involving personal care.

Benefits of working for Superior Healthcare

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