Home Care Assistant - Hailsham (flexible hours) Car owners only

Bluebird Care; Eastbourne; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

This innovative firm is seeking dedicated Care Assistants to provide compassionate care to customers in their homes. The role involves assisting with daily living tasks, ensuring dignity and independence for clients. With flexible hours and a supportive environment, you can make a significant difference in your community while enjoying a fulfilling career. The company offers competitive pay, including mileage allowances, and provides comprehensive training to ensure you excel in your role. If you have a genuine passion for helping others and the ability to work independently, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Pension Plan

Bonus’s and rewards

Free training

Free Uniforms

Free Healthcare scheme for staff and dependants

Mileage allowance

Qualifications

• Must have a driver's license and access to a car for work.
• Good understanding of care responsibilities and ability to follow instructions.

Responsibilities

• Assist customers with daily living tasks, including personal care and companionship.
• Maintain accurate care records and report any changes in customer conditions.
• Work closely with other care professionals and provide support as needed.

Skills

Genuine care

Compassion

Empathy

Good spoken and written English

Ability to follow instructions

Flexibility

Ability to cope under pressure

Job description

If you are looking for a career that offers a chance to make a difference in your community with flexibility and hours that suit your lifestyle this could be that role for you, whatever your age.

Job Overview – a New Career In Social Care

• The role of the Care Assistant is to perform duties and tasks to enable customers to live within the comfort of their own homes in a safe and secure way and to provide a high level of care which promotes dignity, respect and choice and helps them to remain as independent as possible.
• Our customers’ needs may range from companionship and domestic support to personal care. The care will be delivered according to Bluebird Care’s policies and procedures, agreed standards, and legislative requirements as directed by the management staff in the company to ensure a high quality of support is delivered at all times by the care staff.

Duties:

• Assisting a customer to get up, washing, bathing, showering, oral care, grooming
• Toileting including assisting with the use of a commode
• Continence management
• Assistance with eating if required
• Assisting with prescribed medication
• Use of moving and handling equipment (after training) if a customer is unable to mobilise on their own.
• Working closely with other care professionals such as District Nurses and GPs
• Assisting customers to go to bed, including undressing and washing
• Be reliable and understand the necessity of not letting the customer, colleagues or the Company down at short notice and leaving customers vulnerable.
• Recording and reporting
• To write and maintain accurate records of care on a daily basis.
• To accurately complete Medication Administration Records (MAR charts) in accordance with policies and procedures where this is part of the care plan (once fully trained).
• Providing companionship and conversation
• Shopping
• Meal preparation and cooking
• Accompanying customers to appointments
• Light domestic tasks and general household duties such as cleaning, bed making, laundry and ironing
• Social excursions
• To report to the Team Leader or Supervisor if there are any changes or causes of concern in a customer’s condition.

We are an outstanding Domiciliary Care provider where nothing is more important than helping people live full, independent and dignified lives within the comfort of their own homes. We have an excellent reputation in the area, built up by providing the best staff to our customers and delivering the best care support.

Interested? Then send us your CV and we will consider you for the first round of interviews.

Please Call 01323 727903 or 01435 512121

Benefits

Wage and benefit details:-

• We pay £12-14 per hour plus 45p mileage allowance
• Hours of work range from 0700 to 2200
• F/T and P/T hours, or weekends only available
• We offer sleeping and waking nights
• Pension Plan
• Bonus’s and rewards
• Free training
• Free Uniforms
• Free Healthcare scheme for staff and dependants
  
  

Requirements

Due to the nature of this role you must have a drivers licence and Own Car to use for work.

Do you have these characteristics?

• Genuine care, compassion and empathy
• Good level of spoken and written English
• Hold a driving licence and have access to a car
• Good understanding of what the role entails
• Ability to follow instructions
• Responsible and able to work unsupervised
• Able to cope under pressure
• Flexible availability
• Ability to reside in a customer’s home for an extended period (Essential for Live-in Care only)