Full Time Care Assistant - Manchester South

Bluebird Care; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in home care services is seeking compassionate Care Assistants to join their dedicated team. This role offers the opportunity to provide personal care and support to customers in the comfort of their own homes. With a commitment to flexibility, you can choose between full-time or part-time hours, allowing you to balance work with your personal life. The company values its staff, offering competitive pay, a bonus upon passing probation, and ongoing training to ensure you feel equipped and supported. Join a family-oriented team where your contributions truly make a difference.

Benefits

Flexible working

28 days holiday pro rata

Pension scheme

Free uniform

30p mileage allowance

£150 bonus when you pass probation

£150 refer a friend scheme

Full training induction and a 12-week mentor

Ongoing training and support

Qualifications

• Must have a full and valid UK driving licence.
• Access to a car is required for the role.
• Excellent level of English is essential.

Responsibilities

• Providing personal care duties and administering medication.
• Promoting customer health and well-being.
• Manual handling using equipment as required.

Skills

Compassion

Patience

Communication

Job description

Providing Quality Care

Bluebird Care started as a small family business in 2004, and today we are proud to be one of the largest providers of home care services across the UK. But what makes us different?

We’re committed to keeping people in the comfort of their own home, so we help with anything from everyday tasks around our customers’ homes through to complex care needs. We appreciate that every customer is different, and this is why every day will be different.

Roles and Responsibilities as a Care Assistant

• Providing personal care duties
• Administering medication
• Manual handling, using equipment where required
• Promoting customer health and well-being, enabling them to live their life to the full
  
  

Your Experience and Suitability for the Care Assistant Role

It’s isn’t about previous experience. We want to ensure our customer receives the very best care and to do that we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.

But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.

You must have:

• Full and valid UK driving licence
• Access to a car
• Right to work in the UK
• Excellent level of English
  
  

Because We Care About You

We understand that every member of our team has their own family to care for and this is why our role offers the flexibility to work around your own home life. You can choose between full-time or part-time work; all you have to do is simply tell us your availability. Although we try to be flexible where we can, we do require you to be flexible with us too, that’s why we will require you to work every other weekend.

We can’t care for our customers if we don’t take care of our team so to make this possible, we offer:

• An excellent rate of £12.00ph increasing to £24.00ph on bank holidays.
• 30p mileage allowance
• £150 bonus when you pass probation!!
• 28 days holiday pro rata - based on full time
• Full training induction and a 12-week mentor
• Ongoing training and support
• Flexible working
• Pension scheme
• Free uniform
• £150 refer a friend scheme
  
  

But not only that, we take care of our team throughout the year, whether it's your birthday, Christmas, awards or simply because it’s a Thursday. We’re a family and we’re here to look after you today, tomorrow and every other day after that.