Home care Assistant (£19 per hour, 20 hours per week)

Happiest at Home provides dedicated, personal home care assistance to clients, to enable them to have an excellent quality life in their own home. You will be seeing the same client every week.

The Clients

The client is a lovely 13-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and registered blindness. She is non-verbal so uses noises to communicate but can also use physical cues to point to the things she needs.

She lives with her mum and 3 siblings in their comfy family bungalow

She is always able to express her emotions and is normally a very happy little girl.

Her mobility is significantly limited, and she is in her wheelchair consistently, the home is fully adapted to her needs and has ceiling and tracking hoists for her transfers.

Her medications are given through her peg, but she can be fed food and fluids orally if they are pureed.

She enjoys all things musical and sensory, she also enjoys going bowling and is very vocal about her wins! She attends a special needs school and requires aid in getting her up and ready in the morning while mum manages the other children, and the reverse in the evening to help with the aftermath of the school day! The longer weekends are for the client to have entertaining days out with her CarePals, this may consist of a walk around the local town centre or a trip to the local park.

The client and her mum are looking for a team of CarePals who can build and establish a bond with her to work best with her long term, they're also looking for a team with the flexibility to increase hours slightly over holiday periods.

The client will need assistance with her personal care, moving and handling, Incontinence care, companionship and gaining access to the local community

The schedule for this position is:

Monday to Friday - 6pm to 7pm

Alternate Saturdays - 9am to 7pm

2 waking nights every other week (10pm to 7am)

A total of 19 hours average per week.

Our lovely team of 'CAREPals' as we like to call them, are hand selected Support Assistants who ensure that our service is delivered in an exceptional way. As a CAREPal you must be a dedicated professional who is friendly, presentable, reliable, punctual, caring and hard-working.

Much more than a friendly face - We Are Happiest at Home

As a dedicated CAREPal you will visit clients to offer support and friendship. You will be their friendly face and companion to support clients with daily activities to enhance their life and well-being. CAREPal very often become trusted friends with their clients, someone that they can easily chat to, discuss things and share thing with, both at home and when out and about.

Here is an example of the services our CAREPal's offer their clients;

• Companionship - sharing conversation and spending time together


• Helping with mobility


• Overseeing medication - prompting client to take their own medication


• Household chores - help around the home, such as vacuuming and washing clothes


• Preparing and serving home-made meals


• Running errands - assisting with tasks such as shopping or picking up prescriptions


• Personal Care - showering, cleaning and assisting with toileting


• Accessing the local community - accompanying your client to go shopping, attend events or even pop out for some lunch


We want you to be Happy too

We also want you to be happy, as we feel this can really enhance the quality of care for our clients, and satisfaction for our carers.
Here are some of the benefits of working for Happiest at Home;

• Set hours per week - you will work the same hours each week


• Flexibility - You and your client will manage the care package together


• High pay rate - we pay our carers one of the highest rates in the country


• 1:1 support - you will be the dedicated carer for your client during your visits


• Building relationships - we want you to have something in common with your client


• Ongoing support from the office - we want you to have enough support to care to the best of your ability


• Smart-Casual dress code - We don't have a formal uniform


It takes a special kind of person to be a carer. A good carer is someone who truly cares about others and is not just earning a living. This is a special job, and it needs special people to do it.


• NVQ Health and Social: 1 year (preferred)


• Home care Assistance: 1 year (preferred)


• PEG: 1 year (preferred)


• Cerebral Palsy: 1 year (preferred)


• Childcare: 1 year (preferred)


Language:

• Fluent English (preferred)
  
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• Casual dress


• Company pension


• Flexitime


• Free parking


• On-site parking


• Referral programme, Casual dress


• Company pension


• Flexitime


• Free parking


• On-site parking


• Referral programme