📍 Location: Chichester, West Sussex
🏠 Setting: Client’s own home
🚨 Package: Urgent discharge
⏰ Shifts: 12-hour days & 12-hour waking nights
👥 2:1 support required for specific care activities
About the Package
The client has Pompe disease, a progressive neuromuscular condition with significant physical and respiratory needs. The successful carers will provide high-quality, person-centred support to enable the client to remain safely and independently at home.
Key Care Requirements
Experience in the following areas is highly desirable:
* Non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
* Respiratory care and monitoring
* Assistance with applying/removing an NIV mask
* Prisma 40 NIV device
* Hoist transfers and moving & handling
* Two-carer transfers where required
* Pressure area care
* Sacral wound monitoring in line with the care plan
* Medication administration/support
* Full assistance with eating and drinking
* Personal care and activities of daily living
* Nutrition and hydration
* Positioning and comfort care
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for experienced and reliable care professionals who have:
✅ Complex care experience
✅ Respiratory/NIV experience
✅ Experience with hoists and moving & handling
✅ Medication experience
✅ Pressure area/wound care experience
✅ Experience supporting clients with neurological or neuromuscular conditions
✅ A person-centred approach and strong communication skills
✅ The ability to follow detailed care plans, risk assessments and clinical guidance
✅ A commitment to maintaining dignity, choice and independence
Clinical competencies and package-specific training will be required before undertaking relevant clinical tasks.
Staffing
Day: 1 × Care Worker – 12-hour day shift
Night: 1 × Care Worker – 12-hour waking night shift
Additional 2:1 support is required for specific transfers and personal care activities.
This is an excellent opportunity for experienced complex care professionals looking for a long-term community-based package supporting a client in their own home.
📩 Interested? Please send your CV or contact us for further information about the package, shifts and training requirements
Salary description
£15.00 - £20.00 per hour