Care Assistant (Care Professional) – Home Instead, Reading | Sponsorship

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking compassionate Care Assistants in Reading to provide essential home care to older adults. This rewarding role involves delivering companionship, personal care, and household support, ensuring clients maintain their independence and dignity. With a focus on quality care and client satisfaction, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those you support. Join a trusted provider in the home care sector and be part of a team that values your contributions and offers professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Guaranteed hours contracts

Paid travel expenses

Investment in personal development

Employee referral bonus programme

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required, just a caring nature.
• Transferrable experience in supporting others is valued.

Responsibilities

• Provide companionship and personal care to older adults.
• Assist clients with everyday tasks and accompany them to appointments.
• Ensure clients enjoy meaningful social interaction.

Skills

Compassion

Communication Skills

Personal Care

Meal Preparation

Housekeeping

Education

Transferrable Experience

Job description

Care Assistant (Care Professional) – Home Instead, Reading | Sponsorship

Home Instead is looking for compassionate Care Assistants to join the team in Reading. No specific qualifications are required—just a caring nature and any transferrable experience in supporting others.

This role offers a rewarding career in home care, providing companionship, personal care, and household support to older adults. Potential visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates. Join a trusted home care provider and make a meaningful difference every day!

About Home Instead

Home Instead is the UK’s leading home care provider, dedicated to transforming the way older people receive care in later life. As a global, award-winning franchise, the organization operates over 250 independently owned and managed offices, each delivering care ‘the Home Instead way’—a relationship-led, high-quality approach that carefully matches clients with Care Professionals.

Services include companionship, home help, and personal care, as well as specialized support for dementia, Parkinson’s, end-of-life, and live-in care.

Home Instead is committed to being the UK’s most admired care company, continually seeking compassionate Care Professionals who want to make a positive impact every day.

Position: Care Assistant

Salary: £13.80 per hour

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Reading

About the Role

Home Instead has been providing care and support to the older people of Reading since 2012. We are highly rated by the CQC for the quality of service we provide.

We’re a family business, proud to be providing the kind of care we would want for our own parents and grandparents.

Benefits of Working with Us

• Minimum 1 hour visits with each client always
• Guaranteed hours contracts which include travel and waiting time
• £13.80 per hour from the day you start
• Paid travel expenses
• Investment in your personal development to gain professional qualifications
• Employee referral bonus programme
• We call our team members “care professionals” because we know what an essential role they fulfil in the lives of our clients. If you would like your skills and experience to be recognised then apply to join our team.

Working Patterns

We are looking for people to work predominantly mornings or evenings for 2 or 3 week days plus alternate weekends. You could combine both if you want to have closer to full time hours.

Please note that this role involves visiting clients in different locations. Although we minimise the distance from one client to the next, it is only practical to complete the role if you are an active cyclist or have your own vehicle and if you live within the Reading area.

Care Professional Responsibilities:

This is a highly rewarding career where no two days are the same! With minimum 1 hour care visits and client matching, you have the time to provide high quality, person-focused care. Prior experience of the job is not essential. We find that many people bring transferrable skills from other careers and from caring for family members.

Duties can include:

• Companionship – ensuring a client enjoys regular and meaningful social interaction is an important part of your visit
• Help with everyday tasks such as meal preparation and light housework
• Accompanying to appointments or shopping
• Personal care – supporting our clients with the essentials such as bathing, showering, dressing and grooming to keep them healthy and independent

Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications required, but we really value any transferrable experience you might have.

Requirements:

• Driving licence and vehicle
• Availability to work alternate weekends
• This position is within the UK, so would require you to be within a reasonable travel distance of Reading, UK.

Please be aware that this role is UK based and that starting employment will be conditional on your right to work in the UK. Should you require a sponsorship visa to work in the UK we would like to make you aware of the terms you may need to meet for sponsorship. The Skilled Worker visa is open to individuals who attain 70 points by meeting specific requirements such as skill and salary level, English language ability and having a qualifying job offer from a UK sponsor.

This advert does not offer any guarantee of sponsorship by Home Instead.

Required Documents

• CV/Resume

Application Process

If you’re compassionate, reliable, and looking for a rewarding career in care, APPLY TODAY.