Care Assistant - working patterns to suit you

Home Instead Senior Care; Andover; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Home Instead Senior Care is seeking dedicated Home Carers to provide non-medical care and companionship for older people in their homes. This role offers flexible full-time or part-time hours, competitive pay, and comprehensive training. Ideal candidates will be compassionate, reliable, and eager to make a difference in their community.

Benefits

Paid travel and wait time

28 days paid holiday

Support for Care Certificate and further qualifications

Pension Scheme

Personalized support and client matching

Qualifications

• No prior experience or qualifications required.
• Useful to have experience in a care setting or with older people.
• Passion for supporting others and delivering outstanding service.

Responsibilities

• Support clients with daily needs including meal preparation and medication.
• Assist with hygiene routines and social outings.
• Provide companionship and build professional friendships.

Skills

Compassion

Reliability

Trustworthiness

Respectfulness

Job description

Company Description

Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of non-medical care and companionship services for older people. With minimum visits of one hour, award winning training and an excellent reputation we are immensely proud of the quality of care we provide.

What makes us different from other care providers is that we are person centred and not task driven. Offering a minimum of an hours visit at a time in our client's home, means you can spend time carrying out care without rushing and really making a difference to your client's day. All we ask is that you have regular availability, love people, are compassionate, willing to learn and can adapt to your clients' needs.

Job Description

As a Home Carer, you will be required to go into client’s homes supporting them with their daily needs to enable them to stay at home. This can include meal preparation, support with medication, daily hygiene routine, feeding pets and assisting with trips and social outings.

As well as an incredibly rewarding job, we can offer you either full time or part time working patterns to fit around your lifestyle and commitments along with a competitive employment package.

• £12.71 per care hour

• Paid travel and wait time in between clients

• Additional 45p per mile

• 28 days paid holiday

• Rising rate of pay on completion of your Care Certificate

• Personalised, Care Professional and Client matching

• Paid Introduction to your client before having to deliver care

• Personalised support for you

• Pension Scheme

• Support to work towards and achieve, Care Certificate,Diplomas and further care qualifications

So whether you are looking to work just a few hours extra a week to make a difference in your community or you need a full time position, then please give us a call on 01672 555560 or click on the 'I'm Interested' button andwewill be in touch to tell you about the next steps.

Qualifications

You do not need any experience or qualifications to become a Care Professional with us. 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.

Additional Information

• This role is UK based and the right to work in the UK will need to be established as part of the recruitment process.
• Valid UK Driving Licence: With access to a vehicle for work purposes.

• This role is subject to references and DBS check

• Must live within a 20 mile traveling distance of SN9 Postcode

• Ability to work in at least one or more of the areas we cover: Devizes, Pewsey, Marlborough, Andover, Amesbury, Tidworth and surrounding villages.

• Ability to work every other weekend

• Due to the rural location of our client's a car is required to fulfil this role.

• Regrettably we do not have a sponsorship license at this time.