Professional Carer

Prestige Nursing; Taunton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A home care service provider located in Taunton is seeking a Professional Carer to assist clients with daily living activities including medication prompts and meal preparation. The ideal candidate should have good communication skills and prior experience in care, but training will be provided. This part-time role offers flexible contracts, competitive pay plus mileage and holiday pay, and various perks including professional development opportunities and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Flexibility of zero-hour or contracted hours

Paid training and shadow shifts

Pension scheme

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes

Paid time off to volunteer

Holiday pay

Employee Assistance line 24/7

Support from local branch team

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a care assistant is preferred.
• Must have excellent communication skills.
• A driver's licence is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Prompt medication administration.
• Assist with meal preparation.
• Support with personal care and domestic duties.
• Maintain care plans and reports.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Paid previous experience as a care assistant

Driver’s licence

Good professional and personal references

Job description

Professional Carer

£12.94 – £19.41 plus mileage & holiday pay

Location: Taunton

Part Time shifts available

At Prestige Nursing & Care, 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 them. We want to make life better for you too, so you will have all the support and development you need to thrive in your role and develop your career.

Your role will include:

• Prompting medication

• Helping with the preparation of meals and drinks

• Assisting with activities of daily living, domestic duties and personal care

• Maintaining and updating reports such as care plans

We’re looking for:

• Paid previous experience as a care assistant is an advantage

• Excellent communication skills

• A driver’s licence is an advantage but not a requirement

• Good professional and personal references

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

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.

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