Care Assistant

Home Instead; Glengormley; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable home care company in Glengormley is looking for CAREGivers to provide essential home services, including personal care duties and medication administration. Ideal candidates will have a compassionate heart and a desire to improve clients' quality of life. Experience is beneficial but not required. Training will be provided, and the role involves building professional relationships with clients. The position requires UK residency and the right to work in the UK.

Benefits

Paid shadows and training

Consistent client visits

Client and Care Professional matching service

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications required; experience in care setting preferred.
• A passion for supporting others and delivering outstanding service.
• Comfortable spending time with clients and building relationships.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care duties to clients.
• Administer medication as needed.
• Conduct manual handling with equipment.
• Promote health and wellbeing of clients.

Skills

Compassionate and caring nature

Reliability

Trustworthiness

Ability to build professional friendships

Job description

CAREGiverCarer / Care Assistant / Care Worker / Support Worker (Full time and Part time)

• Full-time
• Date Advert Closes: 01 July 2025

Home Instead Antrim, Ballymena & Carrickfergus is an award-winning home care company offering a range of services, enabling our clients to remain living comfortably and independently in their own homes. We are looking to expand our team across the County Antrim area with kind, compassionate and caring individuals.

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 inAntrim, Ballymena & Carrickfergus as a CAREGiver.

As a CAREGiver, you will provide 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 ClientsFlexibly work / a range of shift patterns

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.

Whether you already have experience in the care sector or are looking for a new career, we would love to hear from you!

THIS ROLE REQUIRES THAT THE APPLICANT RESIDES IN THE UK AND HAS THE RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK. We are not sponsoring VISA applications at this time.

Why Home Instead?

• Minimum of 1 hour visits and same clients you will visit each week
• Paid shadows, introductions and training on completion of the 2day Learning and Development Programme
• Client and Care Professional matching service