Home Care Assistant

Prestige Nursing; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Prestige Nursing is seeking a Home Care Assistant to provide essential support to clients in their own homes. The role involves assisting with personal care, meal preparation, and medication administration, requiring care experience and offering various working arrangements including zero-hour contracts.

Benefits

Paid for attended training sessions and shadow shifts

Flexibility of zero-hour or contracted hours

Pension scheme

Blue light card

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes

Continued professional development support

Holiday pay

Refer a friend scheme

24/7 Employee Assistance line

Support from local branch team

Qualifications

• Experience in care is required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Assisting clients with personal care, meal preparation, and administering medication.
• Supporting clients to remain in their own homes during evening shifts.

Skills

Care experience

Job description

Home Care Assistant

SY1, SY2 or SY3

£12.80 – £13.18 per hour

Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evenings 3pm – 10pm. Due to client requirements, this role requires a driver.

About Prestige Nursing & Care Shrewsbury

Our Shrewsbury 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 Home Care Assistants to for Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evenings 3pm – 10pm to support clients to remain in their own homes, assisting with personal care, meal preparation, and administering medication.

Do you need experience?

Care experience is required 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

• 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

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.

You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC.

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