Adhoc Community Care Assistant

Prestige Nursing & Care; Derby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A well-established home care provider is seeking a dedicated Care Assistant to support clients in Derby. This role offers flexible part-time hours and requires hands-on experience in providing personal and emotional care. The position demands a full UK driver's license and values professionals committed to enhancing the lives of service users.

Benefits

Paid training sessions

Free DBS check

Weekly Pay

Holiday Pay

Employee Assistance line available 24/7

Support from local branch team

Qualifications

• Experience in care settings preferred.
• Driver's license and own vehicle required.

Responsibilities

• Provide medication management and personal care.
• Support clients with emotional needs and household tasks.
• Follow detailed care plans for various diagnoses.

Skills

Medication management

Personal care

Continence care

General emotional support

Education

Three months' paid experience in care

Full UK driver's license

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Part time hours across Derby inc. Spondon, Borrowash, Chaddesden, Alvaston, Aston-on-Trent – From 0700-1800

At the request of our clients, we require females only for this role.

People are at the very heart of Prestige, and we want to make life better for them. As a Care Assistant, you’ll join us in our continued efforts to make life better for our clients.

Prestige Nursing & Care has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 30 local offices in England and Scotland. We look after a variety of clients in their own homes and we also work with local care homes, nursing homes and the NHS.

Who will you be helping to make life better for?

We are recruiting an experienced home care assistant to support our service users across the Derby area. Some of our client’s require short visits (no less than 1hr1hr), whilst other require extended shifts to meet a multitude of needs (up to 12 hours). We work to support a diverse range of diagnoses; Dementia, Motor Neurone Disease, Acquired Spinal Injury, Parkinson’s and Challenging Behaviour. Each client has a detailed care plan written with them to ensure that all care staff conduct visits to their specified requirements and within legislation

How will you be helping?

• Medication management and administration
• Help around the house
• Personal care
• Continence care
• Meal preparation
• General emotional support

What we offer:

• A variety of shifts to suit your lifestyle
• You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts.
• Work with our own clients, no agency work.
• Blue light card
• Free DBS check
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
• Continued professional development to support you & your career
• Weekly Pay
• Holiday Pay
• Refer a friend with the Care Friends mobile app and earn extra money – T&C’s apply
• Employee Assistance line – available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
• Support from your local branch team and out of hours support.
• Three months’ paid experience in care
• A full UK driver’s licence is a requirement and your own vehicle
• Good professional and personal references

Want to find out how you can make life better for yourself and the people you care for?

In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced DBS/PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines. All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting Equal Opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.

You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC.

As a Company we are unable to provide Sponsorship for overseas candidates. Applicants must have proof of right to work in the UK. It is a requirement to provide an overseas police check dated within the last 3 months of being in the UK if you have lived outside of the UK for longer than a year in the last 5 years.