Community Care Assistant

Prestige Nursing & Care; Carnoustie; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Blue light card

Holiday pay

Refer a friend scheme

Employee assistance line 24/7

Job summary

Prestige Nursing and Care Angus is seeking a Community Care Assistant to support clients to live independently at home in Carnoustie, Arbroath and Monifieth. You will assist with personal care, medication support and meal preparation, enabling clients to remain in their own homes.

Shifts run 7am–2pm and 4pm–10pm; driver is required. Training is provided with options for zero-hour or contracted hours, plus a range of benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience desirable but not essential; full training provided.
• Willing to work on 7am–2pm or 4pm–10pm shifts.
• Driver with access to a car is required due to client locations.

Responsibilities

• Help clients with personal care such as showering and continence support.
• Provide medication support and meal preparation.
• Support clients to stay safely in their homes.

Skills

Personal care

Medication support

Meal preparation

Driver

Job description

Job title

Community Care Assistant

Location

Carnoustie, Arbroath and Monifieth

Hours / shifts

Zero Hour, Full and Part time shifts available

Hourly pay

13.45 weekdays, 13.83 weekends

Driver

Required

£500 Introductory Offer

£250 once completed onboarding and training; £250 on completion of 200 hours.

About Prestige Nursing and Care Angus

Our purpose is to provide high quality, community-based specialist home care and support. We aim to work together to achieve the goals of each of our varying clients, and to make lives better for our clients.

What our client is looking for

We are looking for carers to support our clients to remain within their homes by providing support with personal care (showering, continence assistance), medication support and meal preparation. 4/3 working pattern.

• Week 1: Mon, Tues, Sat and Sun
• Week 2: Wed, Thurs, Fri

Times

Shifts start at 7am-2pm and 4pm-10pm. Enquiries welcome from those looking to work on a part time basis for mornings or evenings only, same shift pattern applies. Due to client locations we require a driver for this role.

Do you need experience?

Experience desirable but not essential as full training will be given.

What we offer:

• You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts
• The flexibility of either a zero-hour contract or contracted hours, whichever suits your lifestyle the most
• Work with our own clients, no agency work
• Pension scheme
• Blue light card
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
• Continued professional development to support you and your career
• Paid time off to volunteer and give back to the charities and causes that matter to you
• Holiday pay
• Refer a friend scheme
• Employee Assistance line, available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
• Support from your local branch team and out of hours support

Want to find out how you can make life better for yourself and the people you care for?

In line with CQC and Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake enhanced DBS/PVG, right to work, reference and employment history checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines. As a private provider of home care in the UK, Prestige Nursing and Care is not affiliated to the NHS, as such we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of any employment visa at this time. All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing and Care colleagues are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference. We reserve the right to close this position early.