Female Personal Healthcare Assistant LR6208
Independent Lives Haywards Heath
Job Title: Female* Personal Healthcare Assistant
Location: Haywards Heath
Hourly rate: £12.00 rising to £14.00ph once fully trained
Reference: LR6208
Typical duties
Domestic duties to help keep employers environment clean and tidy - to include
Location: Haywards Heath
Hourly rate: £12.00 rising to £14.00ph once fully trained
Reference: LR6208
Hours/shifts: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Saturday and Sunday mornings for 4 hours and up to 2 hours in the evenings. Actual shift times by mutual agreement Job share welcome
Summary- I am a young woman in my thirties.
- I like to be independent but currently need a lot of support around my flat and with personal care including health care tasks due to several health issues after a rough couple of years.
- The job will involve helping with stoma care, tube feeding, medications, domestic tasks, accessing the community and most importantly helping me avoid hospital admissions.
- "Exemption is claimed under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9."
- Non-smoker preferred or someone who is willing to refrain from smoking during work hours.
- Must be English speaking
- Must have a UK driving license
Successful applicants will be entitled to Holiday pay and will be issued employment contracts.
DescriptionTypical duties
Domestic duties to help keep employers environment clean and tidy - to include
- Light housework- hoovering, washing up, put washing on.
- All rubbish and recycling out
- Help with cooking
- Help organise paperwork
- Check for out of date food.
- Putting out clinical waste once a week
- Making up hot water bottles
- Changing the bed
- Make up fresh St Mark’s solution daily
- Prepare medication for JEJ tube
- Run me a bath & wash hair when needed
- Help me dress and tidy bathroom from bath
- Stoma care
- Set up and connect me to my feed St Mark’s solution.
- Looking for signs of low blood sugar and testing to see if I’m having a hypo, then administering medication if needed
- Help getting to appointments & being an advocate
- Collecting medications from pharmacy
- Accessing the community Sunday shift will include accompanying me to wheelchair basketball
Person specification
The successful applicant will be:- Respectful of the employer’s privacy and confidentiality
- Reliable with good time-keeping
- Able to both follow instructions and work on own initiative
- Hygienic, tidy minded and well organised
- Fit and healthy to undertake the required duties
- Patience and possess excellent interpersonal skills
- Honest and cheerful and kind
- Able to speak and read English fluently
- Legally permitted to work in the United Kingdom
- Able to work at all times to high standards of Health & Safety
Please note, if you are successful in your application for this position you will be employed directly by the individual employer and not Independent Lives
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