Home Care Assistant

Home Instead; Worle; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A local care agency in Worle seeks compassionate individuals for the Home Care Assistant role. You will provide support to clients in their homes with daily tasks and offer companionship. Flexible part-time hours are available to match your schedule, with no previous experience required as comprehensive training will be provided. A full UK driver's licence is essential. Enjoy competitive pay rates and various employee benefits including a discount scheme, pension plan, and training opportunities.

Benefits

Paid mileage and travel time

Auto-enrolment pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts at certain retailers

Employee referral bonus

Qualifications

• Available some weekdays plus every other weekend.
• Natural caring qualities are essential.
• Full UK driver's licence and own car required.

Responsibilities

• Visit clients at home to assist with daily routines.
• Provide meaningful companionship.
• Complete tasks such as shopping trips and appointments.

Skills

Compassionate

Kindness

Communication

Job description

As a Home Care Assistant you will be visiting people in their own home to help them with all aspects of their daily routines and provide meaningful companionship at the same time.

Our Office is based in Worle Weston super Mare but we have Clients from Burnham on Sea to Clevedon and everything in between. This includes : Yatton Congresbury Cleeve Clevedon Mark Burnham‑on‑Sea Berrow Bleadon Lympsham Weston Worle Banwell and Winscombe. We try to keep you working locally to where you live to minimise time spent travelling around and maximising your time to care.

We provide care to our Clients from 8 in the morning until 9 : 30 at night but you wont be expected to work all of these hours. Just tell us when you are available and we will fill that time for you. We have split shifts mornings evenings and various hours in the day available you decide what you want to do! All we ask is that you have the same availability every other weekend as well.

We are looking for kind and compassionate people like you to join our Home Instead community. Whether you have direct experience in care personally or professionally or are just starting out we offer industry leading training to help you help others., The right candidate for this role will need to be available some weekdays plus every other weekend. Set hours contracts available discussion at interview. Contract options will be based on your availability. No previous care assistant experience is needed just your natural caring qualities.

We will support you with full training shadow shifts and introductions to all your new clients.

Having a full UK drivers licence and your own car is essential due to some tasks that may be involved like shopping trips taking to appointments and travelling between client visits within a 15 minute window.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. We require successful candidates to have an enhanced DBS check and provide a minimum of 4 references before they can start work as a Home Care Assistant. This role is UK based and the right to work in the UK will need to be established as part of the recruitment process.

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• Great rates of pay - from 13.40 to 15.20 per hour plus paid mileage and travel time on top. We also pay double time on Bank Holidays.
• Minimum 1 hour calls giving you the time to care.
• Part time hours available - which can build to full-time if desired.
• Training - full induction programme where we provide in depth training plus other opportunities to develop your career.
• Introductions to all your new Clients accompanied by a member of the team.
• Auto-enrolment pension scheme.
• Employee referral bonus reward.
• Employee Assistance Programme - access to counselling and other benefits.
• Exclusive discounts scheme supermarkets high street stores Blue Light Card and more.