Professional Carer

Prestige Nursing; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Edinburgh is seeking a Professional Carer to assist clients with daily routines and social activities. This role requires a female applicant with support worker experience. Flexible working hours and various contract options are available, along with additional benefits such as a pension scheme and holiday pay.

Benefits

National Minimum Wage for training

Pension scheme

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes

Paid time off for volunteering

Holiday pay

Employee Assistance line

Qualifications

• Experience as a support worker is required.
• Ability to assist clients in community and social activities.
• Female applicant required due to client-specific needs.

Responsibilities

• Support client to access community and social activities.
• Maintain daily routine for client.

Skills

Support worker experience

Knowledge of Edinburgh area

Job description

Overview

Job title: Professional Carer

Location: Edinburgh – EH11

Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 0900-1500, there may also be the odd Saturday Required. Due to client requirements we require a female worker for this role.

Pay: £13.27 per hour

About Prestige Nursing & Care Edinburgh

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 lives better for our clients.

What our client is looking for

We are looking for a female carer to support our client Monday, Wednesday and Friday 0900-1500, there may also be the odd Saturday Required. This is to support client to access community and social activities and maintain daily routine.

Experience

Support worker experience is required as well as knowledge of Edinburgh area.

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
• Paid time off to volunteer and give back to the charities and causes that matter to you
• 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

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

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.

As a private provider of home care in the UK, Prestige Nursing & Care is not affiliated to the NHS, as such we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of any employment visa at this time.

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.

We reserve the right to close this position early.