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Care Assistant

Home Instead Senior Care

Salisbury

On-site

GBP 20,000 - 30,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player in senior care is seeking compassionate Care Assistants to join their team in Salisbury. This role focuses on delivering person-centred care, ensuring clients live independently and safely. Responsibilities include assisting with personal care, medication support, and engaging clients in various activities. The company values kindness and a caring nature, offering award-winning training and excellent pay rates. With a supportive local team and a variety of perks, this position is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the lives of others while enjoying a fulfilling career.

Benefits

Paid travel and wait time
Mileage allowance
Enhanced bank holiday pay
Guaranteed minimum hours contracts
Free 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme
Paid Refer a Friend scheme
Home Instead discount scheme
Blue Light discount card
Local team with 24/7 support
Fantastic recognition

Qualifications

  • Experience in care is a plus, but kindness and a caring nature are essential.
  • Reliable transport is required for this role.

Responsibilities

  • Provide person-centred care to clients in the Salisbury area.
  • Assist with personal care, medication support, and housekeeping.
  • Accompany clients to appointments and on trips.

Skills

Kindness
Caring nature
Communication

Education

Experience in care (preferred but not required)

Job description

Company Description

What do you think of when you think of care? A list of tasks to get through? Doing things for someone who can’t do anything for themselves? Or a kind-hearted professional supporting someone to live as independently and safely as possible? At Home Instead Salisbury & Romsey, we choose Care Assistants whom we believe have genuinely caring natures—Care Assistants who will treat their clients as the wonderful people they are and who will go the second mile to put a smile on their clients’ faces.

Job Description

If this sounds good to you, why not join our team of fab Care Assistants? We are looking for kind people to provide person-centred care to our lovely clients in the Salisbury area.

Every client is different so there’s plenty of variety, but your role may include the following:

  1. Spending time with clients
  2. Going on trips or accompanying clients to appointments
  3. Assisting with personal care
  4. Providing medication support
  5. Housekeeping
  6. Meal preparation
  7. Going shopping with or for clients

Whatever our Care Assistants are doing, they’re dedicated to providing the best possible care for our clients.

We aim to do our best by our staff, and so in addition to our award-winning training, excellent rates of pay, and opportunities for career development, we offer the following:

  1. All visits one hour or longer
  2. Paid travel and wait time
  3. Mileage allowance
  4. Enhanced bank holiday pay
  5. Option of guaranteed minimum hours contracts
  6. Free 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme
  7. Paid Refer a Friend scheme
  8. Home Instead discount scheme
  9. Blue Light discount card
  10. Local team with 24/7 support
  11. Fantastic recognition
Qualifications

Are you new to care? Great! Are you an experienced carer? That’s great too! Either way, what’s most important is that you are kind and caring, that you share our ethos and values, and that you’re trying to do your best.

Additional Information

Please note that access to reliable transport is required. This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

We are actively recruiting Care Assistants now. If this is something you would be interested in please click "Apply" to get in touch today! We look forward to hearing from you.

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