Home Care Assistant PM

Home Instead; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A local home care provider in Weston-super-Mare is seeking a Home Care Assistant to support clients in their daily routines. This role involves visiting clients in their homes, providing companionship, and assisting with personal care tasks. Evening shifts are available, providing flexibility to work part-time or build to full-time. Training will be provided, and a UK driver's licence is essential for this position, ensuring you can assist clients with errands and appointments. Competitive pay is offered along with various benefits.

Benefits

Great rates of pay

Paid mileage and travel time

Employee referral bonus

Free ongoing training

Exclusive discounts scheme

Qualifications

• No previous care assistant experience needed, just caring qualities.
• Availability for some weekdays and every other weekend is required.
• Full UK driver's licence and your own car are essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure clients enjoy regular and meaningful social interaction.
• Help with meal preparation and light housework.
• Support clients with personal care tasks like bathing and dressing.

Skills

Caring qualities

Communication skills

Time management

Tools

UK driver's licence

Car

Job description

Job Description

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.

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. We try to keep you working locally to where you live to minimise time spent travelling around and maximising your time to care.

The position we have available is an evening shift from 18 : 00 - 21 : 30, on some weekdays plus every other weekend. If this is a time you can work, we'd love to hear from you.

Home Care Assistant Benefits

• Great rates of pay - £15.20per hour after 18 : 00, 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 canbuild to full-time if desired.
• Contracted hours positions including 0, 12, 16, 24 and 30 hourcontracts.
• 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 Cardand more.

Responsibilities

Being a Home Care Assistant is an essential role, supporting our Clients to live well at home. With the support of our team and industry leading training, you can feel fully equipped to deliver the high‑quality care Home Instead has become known for.

Here’s what you will be doing

• Companionship - ensuring a client enjoys regular and meaningful social interaction is an important part of your visit
• Help with everyday tasks such asmeal preparation and light housework
• Accompanying to appointments or shopping
• Personal care - supporting our clients with the essentials such as bathing, showering, dressing and medication to keep them healthy and independent

Qualifications

The right candidate for this role will need to be available some weekdays, plus every other weekend. Zero hours contract, but this can be reviewed after 3 months.

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 driver's 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.

Weprovide free ongoing learning and development opportunities such as the Care Certificate, Health and Social Care diplomas and an extensive range of distance learning courses.

Additional Information

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.