Care Assistant - Barwell, Desford, Market Bosworth, Earl Shilton area

Home Instead Senior Care; Leicester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A care service provider in Leicester is seeking a Care Professional to support elderly clients with personal care and companionship. The ideal candidate will be caring and reliable, available for part-time work including mornings and evenings. This role offers minimum £13.65 per hour and industry-leading training.

Benefits

Minimum £13.65 per hour

Mileage contribution

Workplace pension scheme

Paid holiday

24/7 on call support

Free access to Employee Assistance Programme

Refer a friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Access to your own transportation.
• Experience of challenging behaviour would be an advantage.
• Available for part-time including mornings, evenings and weekends.
• Over 18.

Responsibilities

• Provide emotional support and companionship.
• Assisting with personal care and appearance.
• Supporting with medication.
• Assisting with mobility (Manual Handling).
• Completing domestic tasks.

Skills

Patient

Compassionate

Reliable

Good communicator

Team player

Job description

Company Description

Home Instead West Leicestershire and Market Bosworth covers Barwell, Desford, Market Bosworth, Ratby and lots of surrounding villages. Our mission is to bring dignity back into ageing. We provide dignified and personalised care which puts our clients first. We are rated Good by the CQC.

If you’re looking for a profession where you can bring your caring personality to work and change lives, look no further.

Job Description

Do you want to make ageing fun and enjoyable? Are you kind and compassionate, reliable and trustworthy? Do you want to be part of a great team in West Leicestershire and Market Bosworth as a Care Professional?

We are looking for an individual who is available for a mixture of morning, lunchtime, afternoon and evening calls with some weekend availability.

As a Care Professional you will be responsible for:

• Provide emotional support and companionship
• Assisting with personal care and appearance
• Supporting with medication
• Assisting with mobility (Manual Handling)
• Assisting with meal preparation
• Completing domestic tasks
• Promote health, well being and independence

Our Care Professionals provide a variety of non-medical services to help keep our clients independent in their own home. With minimum visits of one hour, award winning training and an excellent reputation we are immensely proud of the quality of care we provide. We match our Care Professionals to our clients based on mutual interests and hobbies to build bonds of trust and provide personalised support.

Qualifications

• Access to your own transportation
• Experience of challenging behaviour would be an advantage
• Patient, calm, compassionate, reliable and genuinely caring
• A team player
• Professional
• Good communicator and a sense of humour helps
• Someone who wants to make a positive difference to the life of someone in their local community
• Available for part-time - to include mornings, evenings and weekends
• Over 18

We offer:

• Minimum £13.65 per hour
• Mileage contribution
• Workplace pension scheme-provided by Nest
• Free satchel and PPE
• Paid holiday
• 24/7 on call support
• Regular care assistant team meetings, training updates and support visits
• Free qualifications such as NVQ diplomas and Level 2 certificates in a variety of topics
• Free access for you and your family to our Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 confidential support line with free counselling sessions)
• Staff social events
• Access to our Home Instead benefits and rewards, giving you discounts on high street stores, holidays, restaurants and much more
• Refer a friend bonus scheme

This is a fantastic, rewarding role and as a Home Instead care assistant you will really be making a difference to someone's life.

Additional Information

As a Care Professional you will receive industry-leading training, great rates of pay and excellent support.

If you're looking for work which is extremely rewarding and satisfactory and have a high degree of flexibility to meet our clients' needs, we would love to hear from you. Please click on 'I'm Interested'.

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.

This role is UK based and the right to work in the UK will need to be established as part of the recruitment process