Care Professional

Home Instead Senior Care; Lewisham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Instead Senior Care is seeking CAREGivers in Lewisham and Southwark who have kind, compassionate hearts ready to make a difference in the lives of elderly clients. This role involves providing personal care and supporting clients to maintain their independence in their own homes, with extensive training and excellent benefits.

Benefits

Enhanced pay on bank holidays

Mileage allowance

Flexible working patterns

Free accredited training

Health Care benefits

Excellent pension scheme

Regular hours and clients

Introductions/shadows to all clients

Qualifications

• Experience in a care setting or with older people is useful but not mandatory.
• Passion for supporting others and delivering outstanding service.
• Comfortable building professional friendships.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care duties and administer medication.
• Promote health and wellbeing of clients.
• Work flexible hours with a range of shift patterns.

Skills

Compassion

Reliability

Trustworthiness

Job description

Company Description

Home Insteadis 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. We match our CAREGivers to our clients based on mutual interests and hobbies to help build bonds of trust and enables us to provide personalised support.

Job Description

We are looking for people with kind, compassionate hearts who want to make a true difference to the quality of life for our clients to join our team inLewisham and Southwarkas a CAREGiver.

As a CAREGiver, you willprovide a variety of home services to help them keep independent in their own home - this includes,

• Personal Care Duties
• Administering Medication
• Manual handling, using equipment where required
• Promoting health and wellbeing of Clients
• Flexibly work / a range of shift patterns

Qualifications

You do not need any experience or particular qualifications to become a CAREGiver. 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

As a CAREGiver, you will receive industry leading training, great rates of pay and excellent support and benefits include;

• Regular hours and clients
• Introductions / Shadows to all clients
• Enhanced rate of pay onbank holidays
• Mileage allowance
• Flexible working patterns
• Free accredited training
• Health Care benefits
• Excellent pension scheme
• No 15-minute call company

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.