- Pay Rate:
£16.66 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
- LEWISHAM, London,
SE13 7AF
Temporary Telecare Officer – Healthcare
Reference no: Lewisham 0007 6C8F / 1
Pay rate: £16.66 per hour PAYE
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
Enhanced DBS required for this role
Hybrid role
A Telecare Officer is required to providing emergency and support services to the Council’s Telecare service users. A full UK driving licence is required for this role.
Key responsibilities:
- Offer advice to users and liaise with other council departments and outside agencies.
- Visit users in their own homes and provide care to vulnerable adults.
- Provide emergency assistance in the form of First Aid, resuscitation and safe moving and handling when necessary.
- Undertake any follow up actions, such as contacting GPs and other medical professionals.
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- Experience of supporting vulnerable people in their own homes or in services that provide direct assistance or care.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation relation to Health & Safety at work.
- Ability to follow instructions and guidance from medical professionals when more intense first aid is required, such as CPR.
- Excellent customer care experience.
- Able to deal with customers who are distressed/stressed/vulnerable over the phone and in person.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- A full UK driving licence is required for this role.
- ***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
- Full Driving licence, access to a vehicle or access to means of mobility support.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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