Care Professional - Community based

Home Instead Senior Care; Barrow-upon-Humber; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading elderly care provider in Barrow-upon-Humber is seeking compassionate Care Assistants to support adults at home. The role offers flexible part-time or full-time hours, with responsibilities including companionship, personal care, and medication oversight. Candidates must have a driving licence and be fluent in English. Great benefits include competitive hourly pay, professional training, and ongoing support. This rewarding position allows you to make a difference in clients' lives.

Benefits

Enhanced pay for evenings, weekends, and bank holidays

Paid annual leave

Access to company pension

Employee assistance programme

Comprehensive training

Qualifications

• Must be adaptable and personable with a caring personality.
• Driving licence required.
• Fluency in English is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide companionship to elderly clients.
• Assist with personal care and mobility.
• Oversee medication and provide medical support.
• Help with cooking and housekeeping.
• Run errands for clients.

Skills

Compassionate care

Personal care assistance

Mobility support

Medication oversight

Cooking and meal preparation

Housekeeping

Driving

Job description

Company Description

As Home Instead West Leicestershire and Market Bosworth, we aspire to offer consistency and reliability to our Clients and our Care Professionals by using the matching process, the matching process works based on mutual interests, history, background, personality and hobbies. This helps to build bonds and encourages positive relationships with the Client and the Care Professionals.

Benefits

• Introductions to Clients
• Enhanced rate of pay for evenings, weekends and bank holidays
• Access to Home Instead benefits - Discounts :)
• Minimum of 1 hour visits
• Yearly satisfaction survey with opportunity to have your say
• Paid annual leave
• Access to company pension (option to opt out)
• Access to employee assistance programme
• Care professional meetings, social events and friendly supportive office team

We cover all of Leicestershire which covers Barwell, Desford, Market Bosworth, Ratby, Groby and lots of surrounding areas.

If you’re looking for a profession where you can bring your caring personality to work and change lives, look no further.

Job Description

Home Instead West Leicestershire & Market Bosworth is expanding and we are looking for caring, compassionate Care Assistants to help with elderly care and support adults living at home with a range of needs throughout the local area.

We currently have Part Time / Evening & Weekend / full time Care vacancies available with immediate starts once training has been completed, 4 references have been obtained and a successful DBS.

Being a Care Assistant means you need to be adaptable, personable but ultimately put others first.

Your role may include:

• Companionship
• Helping with personal care
• Helping with mobility around the home
• Overseeing medication and providing medical support
• Helping with housework such as cleaning and vacuuming
• Preparing and cooking meals
• Running errands such as food shopping or picking up prescriptions

Qualifications

At Home Instead West Leicestershire & Market Bosworth, we can offer the following benefits for our Care Assistants:

• £13.65 - £14.65 per hour
• Local & Professional Support Team available, 24/7 on call support
• Access to Blue Light Discount Card
• Refer A Friend Scheme
• Award Winning, Comprehensive Induction & Ongoing Professional Development Training
• Fantastic Recognition and acknowledgement during birthdays, appraisals, and special occasions
• Access to special events
• Regular care professional team meetings, training updates and support visits.

Additional Information

As a Care Professional, you will receive industry leading training, great rates of pay and excellent support.

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.

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

Requirements

English (required)

Driving Licence (required)

United Kingdom (required)

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