Healthcare Assistant

Medcom Personnel Ltd; Ballymena; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local care agency in Northern Ireland is looking for compassionate care assistants to provide personal care to older clients in their homes. The role offers flexible hours, including mornings, evenings, and weekends, with full-time and part-time options available. Applicants with care experience will benefit from enhanced pay rates, training opportunities, and statutory sick and holiday pay.

Benefits

Enhanced pay for weekends and evenings

Overtime available

Paid training sessions

Holiday and sick pay

Prompt bi-weekly payments

Qualifications

• Experience in care is a distinct advantage.
• Kind and caring demeanor.

Responsibilities

• Provide light domestic tasks and full personal care.
• Help customers with everyday tasks to improve their lives.

Job description

Overview

• Experience is a distinct advantage
• Good benefits package and great job satisfaction
• Full time and part-time work available
• Mornings/Weekends and Evenings Only all welcome!

Here at Medcom Personnel we boast a team of excellent care assistants who give quality care, support and assistance to predominantly older people who want to live in their own homes and maintain their independence for longer. If you’re a kind, caring person who would enjoy the rewarding work we do, we would like to hear from you.

The demand for our home care services across Carrickfergus, Newtownabbey, Greenisland, Larne, Ballyclare, Antrim and Ballymena continues to increase and as such we need new and experienced care assistants to join us so we can continue to deliver high quality personal care through our local, well supported care worker teams. Your duties may range from light domestic tasks to full personal care. By helping our customers to carry out everyday tasks you make a big difference to their lives.

Our services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so we offer genuine flexible hours; although the majority of our carers work mornings and/or evenings, share weekend cover and enjoy a guaranteed number of hours. We work hard to ensure that you see the same customers regularly, providing continuity and allowing you to build up a good working relationship.

Responsibilities

• Your duties may range from light domestic tasks to full personal care. By helping our customers to carry out everyday tasks you make a big difference to their lives.

Benefits

• Good rates of pay – earn enhanced hourly rates for weekend or evening work and upon receiving qualifications depending on experience and qualifications.
• Overtime available
• Appropriate training – in addition to in-house recruitment and induction training, we also hold regular courses on specialist subjects
• Training pay – we will pay for attending mandatory training sessions
• Bank holiday pay – receive enhanced pay rates for working statutory bank holidays
• Holiday pay – accrued holiday pay
• Sick pay, maternity and paternity pay – we pay statutory sick pay, maternity and paternity pay in accordance with current regulation
• 2 weekly pay – your pay is paid promptly by BACS every 2 weeks directly to your bank account