Care Assistant (Part-time) - Bluebird Care Hounslow & Chiswick

Bluebird Care; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading home care provider in Greater London seeks a part-time Care Assistant to provide personal care and support to clients. The role offers flexible hours, training, and a commitment to ensure staff welfare. Key responsibilities include personal care duties and medication administration. Ideal candidates are compassionate and patient, with good communication skills. Additional benefits include a competitive hourly rate, mileage allowance, and ongoing career development.

Benefits

Competitive hourly rate

Mileage allowance

28 days holiday pro rata

Full training and mentorship

Ongoing career development

Free uniform

Qualifications

• A passion for care and helping people.
• Flexible and hardworking, willing to adapt.
• Must have the right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Providing personal care duties.
• Administering medication.
• Promoting customer health and well-being.

Skills

Compassionate and caring attitude

Good communication skills

Flexibility

Hardworking

Job description

Care Assistant to work part-time during the following hours:

• 7:00am – 12:00pm
• 5:00pm – 9:30pm

5 – 7 days a week

Providing Quality Care

Bluebird Care started as a small family business in 2004, and today we are proud to be one of the largest providers of home care services across the UK. But what makes us different?

We’re committed to keeping people in the comfort of their own home, so we help with anything from everyday tasks around our customers’ homes through to complex care needs. We appreciate that every customer is different, and this is why every day will be different.

Roles and Responsibilities as a Care Assistant

• Providing personal care duties
• Administering medication
• Manual handling, using equipment where required
• Promoting customer health and well-being, enabling them to live their life to the full

Your Experience and Suitability for the Care Assistant Role

It isn’t about previous experience. We want to ensure our customer receives the very best care and to do that we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.

But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.

You must have :

• A passion for care and helping people
• Flexible and hardworking
• Right to work in the UK
• Full and valid UK driving licence (optional)
• Access to a car (optional)
• Good communication skills

Because We Care About You

We understand that every member of our team has their own family to care for and therefore our role offers the flexibility to work around your own home life. Simply tell us your availability. Although we try to be flexible where we can, we do require you to be flexible with us too.

We can’t care for our customers if we don’t take care of our team so to make this possible, we offer :

• Rate is £12.00ph - £12.50ph (Double on bank holidays)
• 35p mileage allowance
• 28 days holiday pro rata
• Full training and a 12-week mentor
• Ongoing training and careers development
• Guaranteed contract hours
• Smartphone technology so you can do everything at the tap of a finger
• Free uniform

But not only that, we take care of our team throughout the year, whether it's your birthday, Christmas, awards or simply because it’s a Thursday. We’re a family and we’re here to look after you today, tomorrow and every other day after that.