Care Assistant

Home Instead Senior Care; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading home care provider in Mansfield is seeking Care Assistants to provide essential non-medical services to older adults in their homes. Candidates should be kind, compassionate, and possess a valid driving license with vehicle access. This role offers flexible working hours, competitive pay ranging from £13.25 to £27.50 per hour, and significant career development opportunities, including NVQs.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Competitive rates of pay

Career progression opportunities

Employee benefits portal

Pension Scheme

Paid Holiday

Double time rates on bank holidays

Qualifications

• Must hold a valid driving license and have access to your own vehicle.
• Caring, kind, and compassionate personality.
• Trustworthy and honest that can build professional friendships.

Responsibilities

• Providing personal care and support for daily hygiene routines.
• Assisting with mobility to ensure safe movement.
• Offering companionship and emotional support.
• Completing housekeeping tasks when required.
• Accompanying clients to activities and appointments.

Skills

Compassion

Reliability

Communication

Flexibility

Organizational skills

Job description

Company Description

Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of non-medical care and companionship services for older people. With a global network of Care Assistants furnished with industry leading training and holding an excellent reputation within a competitive care industry, we are immensely proud of the award winning quality care we provide.

Care Assistants play a vital role in providing care and support to our clients in their homes. The role of a Care Assistant can be incredibly varied depending on the person's individual care needs. If you enjoy providing both practical and emotional support and appreciate a diverse working day, where you can show flexibility and compassion then you might consider a role as a Care Assistant. Candidates MUST have a full UK driving licence and access to a reliable vehicle as well as having right to work in the UK.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Providing personal care, including support for daily hygiene routines.
• Assisting with mobility to ensure safe movement.
• Offering companionship for emotional well-being.
• Completing housekeeping tasks if and when required such as laundry and light cleaning.
• Accompanying clients to activities and appointments.
• Managing medication, including collecting prescriptions and offering reminders.
• Meal preparation and planning to clients’ specific requirements.
• Embracing opportunities to enrich the lives of our clientele.
• Food shopping and prescription collection if and when required.

Hourly rate of £13:25 - £13:75 per hour plus additional paid travel time and mileage. Bank Holiday paid at double time.

Job Description

We are looking for people with kind, compassionate hearts who want to make a true difference to the quality of life for our clients to join our team in Mansfield as a Care Professional. As a Care Professional, you willprovide a variety of non-medical services to help them keep independent in their own home.

You do not need any experience or particular qualifications to become a Care Professional. However, it would be useful to have some experience of working in a care setting or interacting with older people. This could be personal experience of caring for a family member or voluntary experience. You will have a passion for supporting others and pride yourself on delivering an outstanding service. You will be reliable, trustworthy and respectful. You will enjoy building professional friendships and comfortable in spending time in the company of others.

Within this role there will be opportunity for personal & professional growth and development. Your onboarding will include industry leading induction processes and in-house training, you will be furnished with the opportunity to complete your Care Certificates and if you so desire, enrolment on City & Guilds NVQ level courses.

We are actively recruiting Care Assistants NOW so if you wish to make a genuine impact in the lives of our wonderful clients, then get in touch today on 01623 702802.

Qualifications

We welcome anyone with experience to our team, however, full training is provided, so no experience is necessary.

All we ask is that you are caring, kind, compassionate, trustworthy, honestandwith a friendly personality to join our growing amazing team here at Home Instead Mansfield

Must hold a valid driving license and have access to your own vehicle.

Additional Information

• Flexible Working– variety of shift patterns between 07.00 - 21.00, seven days a week.Very Competitive rates of pay - You are the heart of our success and therefore we want to reward our staff with some of the best rates of pay and support from our management team.
• Inductionand Shadow shifts
• £13.25-£27.50per hour + mileage+ Travel time
• Career progression opportunities including NVQ's.
• Friendly and supportive management and office team -We want to make sure you get the most out of your career. Our team will help you along the way. We’ll always be there for any advice or guidance you need.
• Regular huddles, team meetings and other group activities - We are a growing team that will always stay connected
• Special Social Events - Working with external associations offering support - Giving back to our community - Team events
• Blue Light Discount card eligibility
• Home Instead Employee benefits portal - With discounts at over 200 outlets!
• Pension Scheme (subject to eligibility) and Paid Holiday.
• Double time rates on bank holidays- Earn extra over bank holidays.
• Genuine Career Development & Progression Opportunities- We support all of our team along their career path and help people progress to where they want to be.
• Industry-Leading Training and Development- It’s not just our care that is award-winning, we have one of the best training programs in the industry.
• Fully fundedNVQ qualifications.
• Care Certification- Once you have completed your training, you will be awarded with your care certification.
• Full PPE Protection- We ensure both our Care Professionals and clients are protected and safe at all times.

Ready to start your journey with Home Instead Mansfield and make a true difference in your local community?

If you have a good and kind heart, an excellent timekeeper, organised,good listener, able to communicate clearly, and build relationships, with an high-degree ofreliability/flexibilityto meet our clients' needs, we would love to hear from you.

Please click on 'I'm Interested' or alternatively, contact us NOW on 01623 702802 or visit us at www.homeinstead.co.uk/mansfield

We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

This role is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure and reference checks and we can only ONBOARD YOU ON ONCE THESE ARE COMPLETE.

*WE ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT SPONSERSHIP AT THIS TIME*