Complex Care Support Worker / Carer, Guilford, GU1. Are you a compassionate, experienced, and positive Complex Care Support Worker / Carer? Snap Care wants to hear from you! Offering: £438.00 Gross per 24-hour shift.
Nearest Tube/Station: Guildford
Wage/Salary: £18.25 Gross per Hour | £219.00 Gross per 12-hour shift | £438.00 Gross per 24-hour shift.
Driver Essential? No
Essential: Complex medical care experience (PEG, administering controlled medication, managing pain levels). Confident assisting with personal care and manual handling. This role is open to *female applicants only.
Start Date: ASAP
Days & Hours: 12-hour shifts, block shifts including day and night support available, typically starting at 8.00am. Zero hour / bank contract
Family/Client Pets: Yes, a friendly and energetic dog
Accommodation: Ensuite accommodation with sole use of the top floor of the family home, whilst on duty
Recruiter: Jade (jade@snapcare.co.uk) | Suhada (suhada@snapcare.co.uk)
About this client: Snap Care has had the pleasure of working with Rosie (18-years-old) and her family for over 8 years! Rosie enjoys audio books, keeping up with her friends on social media, fashion, make-up, online shopping, going to the movies and spending time in Cornwall in her family holiday home. Rosie has a degenerative condition, requiring 1:1 support, now transitioning to 2:1 (day support), as her condition progresses. Rosie is an intelligent young woman; she knows her own mind and can communicate verbally and engage in conversations in a quiet setting. Her condition presents as a physical disability (she is an electric wheelchair user), and it also affects her hearing, eyesight, and speech. She receives most of her nutrition, fluid via her PEG, along with strong pain medication. Rosie attends college; however, it is unlikely she will attend more than 2 or 3 times per week.
Overview of role: Rosie’s Complex Care Support Worker will assist and support with her daily tasks, including aspects of personal care, administering feeds, liquids and medication via her PEG, repositioning, manual handling (ceiling track hoists in both her family and holiday home), accessing activities, events, participating in family life. There will be days when Rosie needs to be kept comfortable at home and her pain levels managed; therefore, you must be confident working within a family home. If you are available for block shifts (2 or 3 consecutive days), you will also provide night care. These are classified as On-Call Nights, during which you will sleep in the family home and support Rosie as needed, should she require assistance during the night. Rosie might need help with fixing her blanket/duvet or require support with personal care or repositioning; other nights she will not need any support. You will be alerted via an audio monitor and tend to Rosie’s needs as and when required.
Who this job would suit: You must be experienced in complex medical care and manual handling, and able to provide your availability 4 weeks in advance. It is highly desirable that you have a DBS registered on the Update Service and ready to start ASAP.
What’s great about this job: Rosie is an extremely resilient and strong young woman, she has a great sense of humour, even on the tough days. The opportunity to work alongside Rosie is an honour, she is truly a remarkable woman. Further information available on application.
Who is recruiting for this role? Snap Care will be carrying out all recruitment including shortlisting, recruiter interviews and arranging employer interviews. Please note, unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship for any of our vacancies.
* When a specific gender is essential, it is considered a genuine occupational requirement under paragraph 1, schedule 9 of of the Equality Act 2010 for female or male worker to work with our client.