Location: Isleworth, London
Job Type: Full-time
Shift Pattern: 10-hour shifts, day shifts, Monday to Friday with weekend availability
Start Date: ASAP
Nursing Direct is looking for Complex Healthcare Assistants to join our homecare team in Isleworth. In this position, you will provide personalised support to an individual with complex medical and behavioural needs within a homecare setting.
You will assist with all aspects of daily living, including personal care, mobility support, and manual handling. Managing behaviours of concern is a key part of this role. You will be expected to respond calmly and effectively to behaviours such as self-injury or interference with medical equipment, ensuring safety and wellbeing at all times.
Key responsibilities:
- Support engagement in activities and daily routines
- Managing non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
- Administering gastrostomy feeds
- Delivering medication via PEG
- Support seizure management
- Promote independence, dignity, and emotional wellbeing
- Monitor and respond appropriately to behavioural needs
- Follow personalised care plans, risk assessments, and behaviour support strategies
- Maintain safeguarding, infection control, and compliance standards
Essential requirements:
- Minimum 6 months UK experience in a similar support role
- Calm, confident, and compassionate approach
- Enhanced DBS (issued within the last year or registered on the Update Service)
What we offer:
- Competitive pay rate of £16 per hour
- Consistent hours and structured support setting
- Ongoing support from a friendly and dedicated team
- Opportunities for further training and development
If you are an experienced Complex Healthcare Assistant looking for a meaningful, community-based role with regular weekday hours, we would love to hear from you.
PLEASE NOTE: Nursing Direct is a UK-based agency and only offers roles within the UK. Applicants must have UK right to work – we do not offer VISA sponsorship. We cannot accept candidates on 20-hour Student VISAs or Skilled Worker VISAs. Candidates must be based within commutable distance to Tadworth.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults. All roles require up-to-date training and full compliance during registration.
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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: £16.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Referral programme
Application question(s):
- Please specify if you are on a Skilled Worker VISA or Student VISA or neither?
Experience:
- UK healthcare: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
- amount of experience managing NIV (required)
- amount of experience managing seizures (required)
- amount of experience delivering meds via PEG (required)
- amount of experience administering gastrostomy feeds (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
