Care Giver (Morning and / or Evening)

Home Instead; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 18,459 - 20,939; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay rates

Paid travel time and mileage

Free ongoing training

Staff appreciation schemes

Job summary

A local home care service is seeking a compassionate Home Care Assistant in Weston-super-Mare. In this part-time role, you will visit clients in their homes to assist with daily routines and provide companionship. No previous experience is necessary; we offer full training and support. Having a UK driver's licence and your own car is essential for this position. Benefits include competitive pay rates, double pay on bank holidays, paid travel time, and opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• No previous home care assistant experience is needed.
• A full UK driver's licence and your own car are essential.
• Ability to travel to clients' homes within a 15-minute window.

Responsibilities

• Visit clients in their homes to help with daily routines.
• Provide personal care assistance and meaningful companionship.
• Support clients during evening and bedtime routines.

Skills

Caring qualities

Communication

Time management

Job description

Job Description

We are looking for kind and compassionate people like you to join our Home Instead community. As a Home Care Assistant, You will be visiting people in their own home to help them with all aspects of their daily routines and provide meaningful companionship at the same time. Our Office is based in Worle, Weston super Mare but we have Clients from Burnham on Sea to Clevedon and everything in between.

This is a part time position.

The care visits will be between 8 : 00 AM to 12 : 00 PM and 6 : 00 PM to 9 : 30 PM. The role is for 3 or 4 weekdays plus every other weekend. We also have hours at varied times of day available on the weekends, not just evening hours. So please get in touch and see if we have something to suit you!

As a Care Professional with Home Instead, you will be visiting Clients in their own homes to help them with all elements of their tea time / evening / bed time routines, and provide meaningful companionship at the same time. This may also involve providing personal care assistance.

We offer :

• Pay rate of £13.40 (before 6pm on weekdays) - £15.20 (after 6pm and all day on weekends) per hour.
• Double pay on Bank Holidays.
• Paid travel time plus paid mileage.Your pay, whenever you need it - take a portion of your pay early, no need to wait until payday.
• Paid holiday, even on a zero-hour contract.
• Paid training and shadowing.
• DBS fee paid
• Regular working pattern with the same Clients.
• 24 / 7 on call support and a friendly and supportive office team.
• Regular team meetings, training updates and support visits.
• Free qualifications such as NVQ diplomas and Level 2 certificates in a variety of topics PLUS fully funded City & Guilds qualification in Dementia.
• Free polo shirt, rucksack and PPE.
• Free accessto our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Staff appreciation schemes and social events.
• Access to our Home Instead benefits.
• Refer a friend bonus scheme and company pension.

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

Qualifications

No previous home care assistant experience is needed, just your natural caring qualities. We will support you with full training, shadow shifts and introductions to all you new clients.

Having a full, UK driver's licence and your own car is essential due to some home care assistant tasks that may be involved and being able to travel to client's homes within a 15 minute window.

Weprovide free ongoing learning and development opportunities such as the Care Certificate, Health and Social Care diplomas and an extensive range of distance learning courses.

Additional Information

We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Insteadis committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.The home care assistant 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 home care assistant recruitment process.