Care Home Support Worker - £16 p/h - Randstad Care : Job Details

Job Title - Adult Care Assistant/Support worker

Pay Rate - £14-16/hr

Location -Midlothian

Are you an experienced Adult Care Assistant/ Support Worker with access to your own car?

Looking to work with a local authority, with great shift patterns?

Then this could be your next role!

Randstad is recruiting a team of talented Adult Care Assistant/ Support Worker to join a unique package supporting two adults with a rare condition and complex needs in a supported tenancy. The role is not without challenges but will also be very rewarding. You will support service users to live their lives as independently as possible and maximise their opportunities. This is a great opportunity to affect real change into the lives of vulnerable adults and their family.

This role involves providing support to Adults or elders on the autism spectrum,Dementia, Learning Disabilities Nestled in serene countryside and surrounded by farmland, our residence provides a nurturing environment where you can truly make a difference.

Opportunities for day and waking night patterns.

What can Randstad offer care assistants?

-Competitive rates

-Enhanced training tailored to this package

-Immediate start

-Dedicated manager in the package to support your professional development

-Help with SSSC registration

-Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant

A successful care assistant will be responsible for:

-Working effectively with the manager, team and family members

- Supporting wheelchair bound service users which involves using hoists

-Establishing good daily routines and performing personal care

-Seizure care (training provided)

-Displaying the emotional resilience to support service users with life limiting condition

-Working to a flexible schedule, including nightshifts, weekends and bank holidays

-Keeping a positive and friendly attitude! You may be the only people the service users see that day

To be successful in your care assistant application, you will:

-Have previous experience working with adults with complex needs

-Experience in, or prepared to undertake training in PEG feeding, epilepsy and moving and handling

-Have strong communication skills

-Register under the PVG scheme

-Full driving licence (Essential)

-Obtained SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent (desirable)

If this sounds like the position for you, don't delay!

Apply now and one of our team may call you for an informal chat to take your application to the next stage. Alternatively, if you would like some more information give Ankitha Dugni a call on for a confidential chat or email

I look forward to hearing from you.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.