Community carers - Ashford

Care in Kent; Ashford; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full induction and training

Local Ashford area travel

Ongoing support and development

Job summary

Care in Kent is seeking kind, reliable individuals to join our Ashford Community Care Team as Community Care Workers. You’ll help clients live safely and independently in their homes, with visits ranging from 30 minutes to longer durations.

After training, you’ll travel between clients, providing compassionate, individualized care with office and on-call support. Role includes personal care, medication prompts, meals, light tasks, mobility assistance, and meaningful companionship.

Qualifications

• Ability to work in clients' homes with sensitivity and respect.
• Good communication and listening skills.
• Reliable and flexible to meet varied visit times.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care and assist daily routines.
• Support with medication prompts per care plan.
• Prepare meals and encourage good nutrition.
• Tackle light household tasks and mobility support.
• Offer companionship and emotional support.
• Monitor wellbeing and flag concerns to the team.
• Support clients to attend appointments and activities.

Skills

Empathy & compassion

Patient communication

Reliability

Time management

Job description

Looking for a job where you can genuinely make a difference to someone's day?

Care in Kent is looking for kind, reliable and caring people to join our Ashford Community Care Team.

As a Community Care Worker, you'll support people to live safely, comfortably and independently in their own homes. Every client is different, so every day brings something different too!

Your visits could include:

• Personal care - washing, showering, dressing, continence care and supporting people with their daily routines
• Medication support - prompting, assisting or administering medication in line with training and the client's care plan
• Meals & nutrition - preparing meals, drinks and encouraging good nutrition and hydration
• Light household tasks
• Supporting mobility and independence
• Companionship & emotional support - sometimes a good chat and a cuppa really does make someone's day
• Monitoring wellbeing - noticing changes or concerns and communicating these to the team
• Community support - helping clients get out and about, attend appointments or enjoy activities that matter to them

What do the visits look like?

Our care is varied. You could provide anything from a 30-minute care visit through to longer 2, 4, 6 or even 8-hour support visits, depending on the client's individual needs.

Community care involves lone working, so once you've completed your training, shadowing and been assessed as competent, you'll travel between clients and provide care independently.

But lone working doesn't mean you're on your own – our office and on-call teams are there to support you.

What we offer

• £13.01 per hour weekdays
• Flexible days, evenings and weekends
• Visits ranging from 30 minutes to 8 hours
• Full induction and training
• Community shadowing before working independently
• Ongoing support and development
• Consistent care wherever possible, allowing you to build genuine relationships with clients
• Local community-based work around Ashford and surrounding areas
• We are unable to offer sponsorship

If you're looking for meaningful work, enjoy helping people and want a role where no two days are quite the same, we'd love to hear from you!