Home care assistant

Prestige Nursing; Northampton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Prestige Nursing is seeking a part-time Home Care Assistant in Northampton. You will support clients by assisting with medication, personal care, and daily living activities, helping them maintain independence in their homes. The role requires previous experience, excellent communication skills, and a valid driver's license. The flexible contract offers competitive hourly pay along with various benefits.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes

Paid time off to volunteer

Holiday pay

Refer a friend scheme

Employee Assistance line 24/7

Support from local branch team

Qualifications

• Paid previous experience as a care assistant is essential.
• A driver’s licence is essential.
• Good professional and personal references.

Responsibilities

• Prompting and administering medication.
• Helping with the preparation of meals and drinks.
• Assisting with activities of daily living such as domestic duties and personal care.
• Maintaining and updating reports such as care plans.

Skills

Communication skills

Job description

Home Care Assistant

Northampton – £13 per hour – Weekly Pay – Mileage Paid

Part Time worker needed for drop in calls; support required across NN1 – NN7 area

We are currently looking for a home care assistant to visit our service users and assist them with medication, meal support, personal care, and socialising.

You would be supporting individuals to live independently within their own homes, on a part time basis, and would have consistent individuals with whom you would build a rapport with.

Your role will include:

• Prompting and administering medication

• Helping with the preparation of meals and drinks

• Assisting with activities of daily living such domestic duties and personal care

• Maintaining and updating reports such as care plans.

We’re looking for:

• Paid previous experience as a care assistant is essential

• Excellent communication skills

• A driver’s licence is essential

• Good professional and personal references.

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

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.

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