Care Assistant

Home Instead Senior Care; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking compassionate Care Assistants to join their dedicated team in Salisbury. This rewarding role focuses on providing person-centred care, ensuring clients live independently and safely. Responsibilities include assisting with personal care, medication support, and engaging with clients through various activities. The company values its staff and offers award-winning training, competitive pay, and numerous perks, such as paid travel and a supportive local team. If you have a caring nature and want to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Paid travel and wait time

Mileage allowance

Enhanced bank holiday pay

Guaranteed minimum hours contracts

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Paid Refer a Friend scheme

Home Instead discount scheme

Blue Light discount card

24/7 local team support

Recognition programs

Qualifications

• Kind and caring nature is essential for this role.
• Experience in care is a plus but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred care to clients in Salisbury area.
• Assist with personal care, medication support, and housekeeping.
• Spend quality time with clients and accompany them to appointments.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Personal Care Assistance

Medication Support

Housekeeping

Meal Preparation

Education

None required

Job description

Company Description

What do you think of when you think of care? A list of tasks to get through? Doing things for someone who can’t do anything for themselves? Or a kind-hearted professional supporting someone to live as independently and safely as possible? At Home Instead Salisbury & Romsey, we choose Care Assistants whom we believe have genuinely caring natures—Care Assistants who will treat their clients as the wonderful people they are and who will go the second mile to put a smile on their clients’ faces.

Job Description

If this sounds good to you, why not join our team of fab Care Assistants? We are looking for kind people to provide person-centred care to our lovely clients in the Salisbury area.

Every client is different so there’s plenty of variety, but your role may include the following:

• Spending time with clients
• Going on trips or accompanying clients to appointments
• Assisting with personal care
• Providing medication support
• Housekeeping
• Meal preparation
• Going shopping with or for clients

Whatever our Care Assistants are doing, they’re dedicated to providing the best possible care for our clients.

We aim to do our best by our staff, and so in addition to our award-winning training, excellent rates of pay, and opportunities for career development, we offer the following:

• All visits one hour or longer
• Paid travel and wait time
• Mileage allowance
• Enhanced bank holiday pay
• Option of guaranteed minimum hours contracts
• Free 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Paid Refer a Friend scheme
• Home Instead discount scheme
• Blue Light discount card
• Local team with 24/7 support
• Fantastic recognition

Qualifications

Are you new to care? Great! Are you an experienced carer? That’s great too! Either way, what’s most important is that you are kind and caring, that you share our ethos and values, and that you’re trying to do your best.

Additional Information

Please note that access to reliable transport is required. This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check

We are actively recruiting Care Assistants now. If this is something you would be interested in please click "Apply" to get in touch today! We look forward to hearing from you.