Home Care Assistant

Prestige Nursing; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking compassionate Home Care Assistants to provide essential support to clients in their own homes. This role offers the flexibility of a zero-hour contract, allowing you to balance your work and personal life effectively. You will be responsible for delivering personal care, administering medication, and providing companionship, all while ensuring a safe and nurturing environment. The company values your professional growth and offers training, holiday pay, and a pension scheme. If you are empathetic, reliable, and ready to make a difference in people's lives, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Blue Light Card

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes

Continued professional development

Holiday pay

Refer a Friend scheme

Employee Assistance Line – available 24/7

Qualifications

• Experience in complex care is advantageous but training will be provided.
• Excellent communication skills are essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care and medication administration to clients.
• Encourage fluids and nutrition while ensuring client safety.

Skills

Empathy

Trustworthiness

Patience

Proactivity

Problem Solving

Reliability

Communication Skills

Education

Full UK driver's licence

Job description

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Home Care Assistant

Plymouth

Zero Hours

About Prestige Nursing & Care Location

Our Plymouth branch are all long serving and have a vast knowledge of the area and our client base. 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 a difference in their lives.

What our client is looking for:

We are looking for additional staff to support our existing client base.

Tasks include:

1. Personal care
2. Administration of medication
3. Shopping
4. Accompanying people to attend appointments
5. Light housework tasks
6. Companionship
7. Encouraging Fluids and Nutrition
8. Supporting clients with admin tasks
9. Safeguarding vulnerable adults

This is to cover visits in clients own homes. Skills required:

1. Female
2. Empathetic
3. Trustworthy nature
4. Patient and calm
5. Proactive
6. Problem solving nature
7. Positive in their approach
8. Reliable

We have some runs of visits but these do require a driver because they aren’t all in the same area. We do provide sufficient travel time though so you aren’t rushed getting from one visit to the next and you don’t have to jeopardise the quality of care you are giving.

Complex care experience is advantageous but full training will be provided.

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
• 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

We’re looking for:

1. Excellent communication skills
2. A full UK driver’s licence
3. Good professional and personal references

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

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.

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.

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.