Complex Care Worker

Prestige Nursing & Care Plymouth; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A premier home care provider in Plymouth seeks a Professional Carer and Complex Care Worker to support clients with personal care and complex care tasks. This role requires a full UK driving license. Flexible hours are available, including nights and weekends, ensuring great work-life balance. The company offers training, holiday pay, and free DBS checks. Ideal candidates are kind, reliable, and possess excellent communication skills.

Benefits

Holiday pay

Free DBS

Pension scheme

Blue light card

Refer a friend scheme

Paid training sessions

Support from local branch team

Employee assistance line

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Professional Carer is required.
• A full UK driving licence and Business Insurance are essential.
• Professional employment references needed.

Responsibilities

• Supporting with personal care tasks.
• Administering medication.
• Performing complex care tasks like bowel management.
• Preparing and encouraging nutrition.
• Assisting with daily living activities.
• Maintaining care records.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Flexible availability

Kind, empathetic nature

Reliability

Proactive attitude

Job description

Professional Carer and Complex Care Worker

Full UK driving licence is essential for this role. Plymouth area – £13.68 – £20.52 per hour – weekly pay, free DBS, holiday pay.

Various hours available across Plymouth and surrounding areas. Hours include sleep‑in nights and weekend work. Day hours vary – some days are (Apply online only), some are (Apply online only) and we also have shorter hours available.

We will work with you, providing exceptional training and support so you can go to work and do what you do best, without any worries or uncertainty.

About us

The Plymouth branch opened in 1997 and the most important thing to us is that the people we support and our care team are happy. We are a friendly and supportive team with quality at the forefront of everything we do.

Responsibilities

• Supporting with personal care tasks
• Administering medication
• Complex care tasks such as bowel management and cough assist
• Preparing and encouraging fluids and nutrition
• Assisting with activities of daily living and outings
• Maintaining skin integrity
• Domestic duties and shopping trips where appropriate
• Maintaining and updating care records

Qualifications

• Paid previous experience as a Professional Carer
• Flexible availability to include every‑other weekend (essential)
• Excellent communication skills
• A full UK driving licence and Business Insurance
• Kind, empathetic, trustworthy, reliable, proactive and positive nature
• Professional employment references

Benefits

• Holiday pay
• Free DBS
• Pension scheme
• Blue light card
• Refer a friend scheme
• Paid national minimum wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity and adoption schemes
• Continued professional development
• Paid time off to volunteer and give back to charities and causes that matter to you
• Employee assistance line – available 24/7 and fully confidential
• Support from your local branch team and out of hours support

In line with CQC & 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.

*Please note that sleeping nights are paid at £9 per hour.

As a private provider of home care in the UK, Prestige Nursing & 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 & 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.