Part Time Care Assistant

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

Job summary

A leading company in home care seeks passionate Home Care Assistants to support older adults in the Poole area. This part-time role offers the opportunity to make a significant difference in clients' lives while enjoying flexible hours that fit around your personal commitments.

Benefits

Paid mileage

Flexible part-time hours

Continual training opportunities

Employee Benefit Scheme

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in caring beneficial but not essential.
• Access to own flexible transport is essential due to work in surrounding rural areas.

Responsibilities

• Prompting & assisting clients with their medication.
• Preparing simple meals and light household duties.
• Providing companionship and support with daily activities.

Skills

Caring

Communication

Compassion

Job description

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Home Care Assistant - Earning up to £14.75 p/h.

Do you want to help people in need and make a difference in their lives? Do you want to work with the elderly, but don't have any experience or qualifications? If so, then becoming a care assistant might be your perfect career.

As someone who cares for others on a daily basis, we know that it can bring huge rewards. And when we say ‘rewarding’, we’re not just talking about pay. As a care assistant, you can make a real difference to the lives of older adults in your local area by giving them the support they need to live independently in their own homes.

Care Assistant Pay & Benefits

• rate enhancements on Bank Holidays.
• Paid waiting and travel times - up to 1 hour.
• Paid mileage
• Part Time Hours
• Refer a friend scheme
• Full PPE provided
• Employee Benefit Scheme

Care Assistant Job Description

This is a totally unique care sector opportunity - We will carefully match you to your own small circle of older adults in your local community and you will support them to live happy, independent lives by providing:

• Prompting & assisting your clients with their medication
• Support with daily activities respecting privacy and dignityif needed
• Preparing simple meals and light household duties
• Companionship, a cup of tea & a natter
• Shopping trips, social calls, appointments, clubs hobbies (own car advantageous)

Qualifications

Experience in caring beneficial but not essential.

Access to own flexible transport is essential due to work in surrounding rural areas.

Additional Information

The Benefits of Becoming a Care Assistant

• Flexible Part-time hours are available between 16-30hours per week (unfortunately, we cannot offer purely school hours or full-time as each employee only has a small circle of their own regular clients)
• If you have some availability mornings (ideally starting at 07:30) or tea/evening times (ideally starting at 16:00) able to workhours alternate weekends, then this position could fit around your other interests & commitments
• Excellent training is provided and you’ll meet some like-minded people
• The biggest benefit of all is making a difference every day and putting a smile on your client’s faces

If you have a passion for caring and the motivation to help us achieve our ambitions, we would love to hear from you.

We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Insteadis committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.This role is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure.

If you're looking for work which is extremely rewarding and have a high degree of flexibility to meet our clients' needs, we would love to hear from you.