Professional Carer - BS23 Area

Prestige Nursing Ltd; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 27,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Blue light card

Holiday pay

Refer a friend scheme

Employee Assistance line – 24/7

Job summary

Prestige Nursing Ltd is hiring a Professional Carer to cover Weston-Super-Mare and surrounding BS23 area on a part-time basis. You will visit service users at their homes, assist with medication, meals, personal care, and engage in social activities to support independence.

The role involves working with branch nurses and care staff, with opportunities for progression and ongoing professional development. DBS/PVG checks and right-to-work verification will be completed as part of safeguarding.”

Qualifications

• Medication administration, meal support, personal care, and socialising.
• Ability to visit service users across Weston-Super-Mare area.
• Part-time hours with weekly pay and mileage paid.

Responsibilities

• Prompting and administering medication.
• Helping with meal preparation and drinks.
• Assisting with activities of daily living and domestic tasks.
• Maintaining and updating care reports and plans.
• Building rapport with consistent individuals.

Job description

Professional Carer - BS23 Area (PC142) Weston-Super-Mare, England

Salary: GBP12.94 - GBP19.41 per hour

Professional Carer

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Part Time Hours; support required across Weston-Super-Mare area

Are you new to working within care and have a passion to help and support people, whilst also expanding your own knowledge?

We have an exciting vacancy within the local Weston area for a Professional Carer to join our team and develop their care skills, working alongside our Branch Nurses and Care Staff with opportunity to progress.

We are currently looking for a care assistant to visit our service users and assist them with medication, meal support, personal care, and socialising.

You would be supporting individuals to live independently within their own homes, on a part time basis, and would have consistent individuals with whom you would build a rapport with.

Your role will include:

• Prompting and administeringmedication
• Helping with thepreparation of meals and drinks
• Assistingwith activities of daily living such domestic dutiesandpersonal care
• Maintainingand updatingreports such as care plans.
• Paid previous experience as a care assistant is an advantage
• A driver’s licence is an advantage but not arequirement
• 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
• 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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