Home care Assistant

Prestige Nursing; Forfar; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading home care provider in Scotland seeks a compassionate Home Care Assistant to provide high-quality care to clients in their homes. You will assist with personal care, medication management, and meal preparation. Drivers preferred but care experience is not essential. Enjoy flexible working hours and various benefits, including a pension scheme and paid time off for volunteering.

Benefits

Paid training sessions

Flexible working hours

Pension scheme

Holiday pay

Employee assistance line

Continued professional development

Qualifications

• Supporting clients to remain at home.
• Assisting with personal care, medication, and meal preparation.
• Care experience not essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality personal care to clients.
• Assist with medication management and meal preparation.

Skills

Driving

Job description

Job title

Home Care Assistant

Location

Forfar/Kirriemuir

Hours

4/3 working pattern.

Week 1 – Mon, Tues, Sat and Sun

Week 2 – Wed, Thurs, Fri

Times – Shifts start at 7am-2pm and 4pm-10pm.

Pay

£13.01ph weekdays, £13.41ph weekends

Requirements

Due to client requirements, we require a driver for this role.

About Prestige Nursing & Care Angus

Our purpose is to provide high quality, community-based specialist home care and support. We aim to work together to achieve the goals of each of our varying clients, and to make lives better for our clients.

What we are looking for

We are looking for home care assistants to support clients remain at home as long as possible. Support with Personal care, medication and meal preparation.

Do you need experience?

Care experience is not essential for this role.

What we offer

• You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts
• We offer the flexibility of either a zero-hour contract or contracted hours, whichever suits your lifestyle the most.
• Work with our own clients, no agency work
• Pension scheme
• Blue light card
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
• Continued professional development to support you & your career
• Paid time off to volunteer and give back to the charities and causes that matter to you
• Holiday pay
• Refer a friend scheme
• Employee Assistance line – available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
• Support from your local branch team and out of hours support

Apply

Want to find out how you can make life better for yourself and the people you care for? Apply today.

Legal & Compliance

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.

Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.

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.

We reserve the right to close this position early.