Community Care Assistant

Prestige Nursing; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a compassionate team dedicated to enhancing the lives of clients as a Community Care Assistant. This role offers the opportunity to provide personalized care in a supportive environment, ensuring that each client receives the attention they deserve. You'll work closely with clients in their homes, fostering meaningful relationships and delivering essential services. With flexible full-time and part-time options, this position is ideal for those who are caring, resilient, and committed to making a difference in their community. Enjoy a supportive workplace with ongoing professional development and a range of perks designed to enhance your career.

Benefits

Paid training sessions

Weekly pay

Pension scheme

Blue light card

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity schemes

Continued professional development

Holiday pay

Employee Assistance line

Mileage reimbursement for drivers

Qualifications

• Must live in Edinburgh and commit to the shifts and rota.
• Good professional and personal references are required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver personal care to supported individuals in their homes.
• Manage medication and provide meal support.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Caring and committed

Resilience

Reliability

Education

No formal education required

Job description

Community Care Assistant

Edinburgh

£12.44 per hour with additional holiday pay accrual, plus every second weekend is guaranteed time off.

Working a *4/3 Rota with shift times 7am to 2pm and 4pm to 10pm

Full time and Part time roles available

*Wk 1 - Mon, Tues, Sat and Sunday

Wk 2 - Wed, Thurs and Friday

Must be able to commit to the shifts and rota

Life at Prestige

People are at the very heart of Prestige, and we want to make life better for them. As a Care Assistant, you'll join us in our continued efforts to make life better for our clients.

Who will you be helping to make life better for?

Prestige Nursing & Care Edinburgh are seeking dedicated and passionate Community Care Assistants to join our care and support team. You will work delivering person-centred, specialised care to our clients in their own homes on a one-to-one basis. This will enable you to maintain a clinical and supportive overview of your client.

We are looking for Professional Carers who can build positive relationships with a range of clients and their families as we understand the importance that we play in their lives.

What we offer:

• You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts.
• Work with our own clients, no agency work.
• Weekly pay
• Pension scheme
• Blue light card
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
• Continued professional development to support you & your career
• Holiday pay
• Care Friends App Referral Scheme - T&C's apply
• Employee Assistance line - available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
• Support from your local branch team and out of hours support.

The Role

• Deliver personal care to supported individuals.
• Work as part of a team or independently to support individuals in their own homes.
• Medication management
• Social visits.
• Meal support

We're looking for:

• Excellent communication skills
• Caring, committed, resilient and reliable
• Must live in Edinburgh and be able to commit to the rota and shifts
• A driver's licence is preferred but not a requirement
• Walker roles may be available
• Good professional and personal references

If you are a driver, you will receive 45p per mile between clients to cover mileage costs.

In line with Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice.

Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be an extension to timelines.

All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & 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.