Role: Complex Care Assistant

Location: Biddenden, Ashford

Hourly Rate: £15.00 to £16.83 per hour

Shifts available: 3 x 8 pm to 8 am waking nights. We ask that there is some flexibility to cover sickness and annual leave within the team.

Please note you must be eligible to work in the UK. We do not offer sponsorship.

Previous care experience is essential.

This is a zero hours contract. Contracted hours will be considered after successful completion of probation.

About the Role:

Continuity of Care Services is looking for compassionate and dedicated Complex Care Assistant to support our sociable and active 40s male client living with severe traumatic brain injury. He partakes is a range of activities at home such as his exercise bike, ball games and sensory games. He enjoys a variety of music genres and likes to listen to audio books. He requires patient carers who can anticipate his needs to provide a high level of complex care and to access the community as he loves going out to country parks and the cinema too.

Our clients requirements:

- Personal care

- Moving and handling

- Medication administration

- PEG Tracheostomy Catheter (training will be given)

- Brain awareness injury (preferred but training will be given)

- Full UK driving licence to drive clients Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV) (essential)

- Basic household chores

Skills training specific to the individuals needs will be provided by Continuity Training Academy to all our Care Assistants.

What We Offer You:

- Paid training and access to our training academy with ongoing training opportunities

- Opportunities for career progression and to take Health and Social Care Qualifications

- Refer a friends scheme (£500) *terms and conditions apply

- 24/7 on-call assistance plus support from your line manager

- Pension scheme

- Full PPE provided

- Employee Assistance Programme (Smart Clinic)

At Continuity of Care Services Ltd we offer support to individuals in their own homes, with a private team of carers to ensure continuity. We promote independence and offer a high-quality service that ensures individuals are in control of their own care needs.

We treat people with respect and our service users as individuals not numbers. Our person-centred Ethos: Your Time, Your Team, Your Life.

If you enjoy making a difference in the lives of others and in the community, we want you to work with us.