Care Assistant

  • Part-time
  • Date Advert Closes: 13th December 2021

Company Description

Un retire and work for Home Instead! Retiring isn’t for everyone. Do you enjoy helping and meeting new people? Would you like to put smiles on neighbours faces in our community? Does this sound like you?

At Home Instead, we are looking for kind and caring individuals to join our fantastic team of CAREGivers.  Even if you can only spare a couple of hours a week, we would love to hear from you! Your life skills are perfect for us, we don’t require any previous care experience. As long as you have a desire to care, we can train the rest!

To us, care is personal. We are all truly committed to making a difference to the older members of our community, which is why we do Minimum 1 hour visits. We keep you with the same clients and match our CAREGivers to our clients based on mutual interests and hobbies to help build bonds of trust, enabling us to provide compassionate, relationship-led support from the heart. We are rated as a 5 Star Employer, ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission and voted in the top 20 of home care providers in the North West for the third year running!

Job Description

We will care and support you while you care for your clients.

When you join our family of CAREGivers, your visits may include:

  • Shopping and meal preparation
  • Prompting medication
  • Support with daily routines
  • Socialising and leisure activities
  • Helping with washing and dressing

Qualifications

No previous care experience is necessary, as full award winning training is provided to all of our CAREGivers. We are looking for people from across the community who share in our values to provide compassionate care and get to know our clients as you would your own family. You will need a car, as our clients will need help to get to appointments.

Additional Information

We can offer you:

  • Minimum 1-hour calls with your own regular matched clients
  • Excellent pay rate plus paid travel and waiting time and petrol allowance
  • Flexible hours picked by you. 
  • Bespoke, paid training programmes including City and Guilds certificated training in Alzheimer’s and dementia care and Parkinsons training
  • Regular staff meet ups and events including coffee mornings and quarterly staff meetings
  • Supportive work environment that centres on your wellbeing
  • Wellness program, including free counselling and legal advice and discounted health and dental cash plans for yourself and your family.
  • Exclusive discounts at high street stores, supermarkets, utility providers and much more.
  • Employee referral bonus of £250
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