Support Worker, Healthcare Nursing

Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire Hours: 8 - 12 hours Per Week Job Title: Support Worker Pay: £13.00 per hour

About Home Care Direct

Home Care Direct  is a leading national provider of personalised home care. We are dedicated to delivering safe, compassionate, and person-centred care while ensuring our staff receive high-quality training, supervision, and career development opportunities.

Why Join Us?

• Company pension scheme
• Enhanced bank holiday pay
• Paid training

• Dedicated Regional Care Lead & Nurse support
• 24/7 on-call assistance
• Employee perks, including:
  • Blue Light discount card
  • Long Service Awards
  • PA of the Quarter Awards
  • 24/7 confidential wellbeing support via Spectrum Life

Please Note - Our organisation cannot provide work sponsorship; please do not apply for this vacancy if you require this to work in the UK.

The Role

As a Personal Care Assistant
, you’ll be part of our client’s dedicated support team, providing essential care in their home. You’ll be employed by Home Care Direct  but will focus solely on supporting this client.

This is a lovely part-time role available for a caring, funny and down to earth support worker in the Sheffield area.

This position is for 8 - 12 hours a week, over 2-3 days which would include alternate Sundays, but there are no Saturday shifts. The hours of work each day would fit around the other support worker in the package and between you ensure that one of you was on shift each day and cover for each other in times of sickness or holidays.

Our client is a gentleman who has memory problems and epilepsy resulting from a brain injury. Although he has retained his sense of humour and love for comedy, sitcoms, music and football, he needs support with prompts and reminders with everyday tasks.

This role would include supporting with attending appointments and shopping trips, general help around the home and helping our client to keep his diary up to date so he has all information he needs to remind him of things. You will also help to order and organise his medication so you need to be proactive and have a sense of maturity.

No personal care is involved in this role.

Training Provided Specific to this Client:

• Induction Training
• Safeguarding Adults
• Health and Safety
• First Aid
• Food Hygiene

You will be trained to CQC standards to meet the needs of the client.

• An enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this vacancy (expense to be met by Home Care Direct )
• Prepared to commit to long term care for one client in a 'person-centred' way
• Willing to be trained to CQC standards to meet the client's needs
• Respect Company policies and procedures
• Be reliable / non-judgemental / caring / responsible / compassionate
• Committed to confidentiality and to treat the client with dignity and respect
• Experience with in a similar role, specifically supporting someone with epilepsy
• Have a supporting, understanding and patient with a good sense of humor

• Company pension scheme
• Enhanced bank holiday payments
• Annual Leave is paid at 5.6 weeks (pro-rata) per annum, based on contracted hours

• Full support and supervisions from your dedicated Regional Care Lead
• Training and full support from your local HCD Community Nurse Assessor
• Career pathway options
• A personal development plan
• 24hr on-call support

• A Blue Light discount card
• Long service awards
• Free wellbeing options and EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) provided by Spectrum Life

This vacancy is for a personal assistant to join our client’s support package to support them in their own home. We will be your legal employer on behalf of the client and you will not be asked to support other clients. All of our contracts are for permanent positions with a 6 month probationary period.

Home Care Direct  is a national service provider and industry-leading specialist in the personalisation of care istered with the Care Quality Commission, Home Care Direct  provides a person-centred approach, keeping clients safe at home, supporting with recruitment, employment and training for their staff to the highest standards, meeting legal and regulatory requirements.

Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.