Position: Home Care Assistant – Sponsorship Available
Salary: £12.95 per hour
Job Type: Full-time, part-time
Work location: Crewkerne, England
FULL JOB DESCRIPTION
About The Role
If you’re looking for a fulfilling career, that truly makes a difference to others, then we would love to hear from you. We are recruiting Home Care Assistants to provide care and support to clients within their own homes.
We are offering sponsorship for this role, to be considered you MUST be currently living within, or close to, the Yeovil area, have a full UK driving license, and existing domiciliary care experience.
Care South is a not-for-profit charity and leading provider of both residential care and care at home across the south of England.
Why choose this role? At Care South, we take pride in offering continued training and development opportunities alongside supporting our staff to complete recognized qualifications. Unlike other providers, we are completely transparent with pay, not only do we offer a generous petrol allowance of 40p per mile, but we also pay for your travel time between clients.
No experience? No problem, we offer a comprehensive induction to ensure you will succeed in your new role. We can offer work schedules to fit your lifestyle, with full-time, part-time, and flexible hours available.
This community-based Home Care Assistant role will be supporting clients with a variety of needs including personal care within their own homes, you will need a UK driving license and access to your own vehicle. Our Home Care Assistant role allows for flexibility and delivers care to our clients between 7 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 10 pm.
Our Home Care Assistants receive –
- £12.95 per hour
- £2.00 per hour Bank Holiday enhancement rate
- Full-time, part-time, and flexible hours are available
- Free Life Assurance for staff with contracted hours
- Paid travel time
- 40p per mile mileage allowance
- Blue Light discount card
- Outstanding training, qualification and career advancement opportunities
- A supportive and inclusive team environment
- Employee recognition, including ‘Employee of the Month’ and yearly ‘Star Awards’
Key duties for Home Care Assistants include:
- Identifying the needs and abilities of our clients and providing personal care and encouragement to them
- Assisting with medication, meal preparation and domestic services
- Supporting with community visits (shopping and leisure trips)
- Regular communications with the office support team
- Reflect our HEART values in your day-to-day work
About you:
- Do you have a desire to make a positive impact on the lives of our clients?
- Do you have previous experience? this isn’t essential, as full training is provided
- Are you the holder of a UK driving license with access to a vehicle?
- Do you have business insurance on your vehicle or are you happy to obtain it?
- Are you flexible in the hours you can work and able to work every other weekend?
- Are you able to work independently and as part of a team?
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, please contact Vicky on 07821301921 or vicky.withers@care-south.co.uk
Application Process
If you’re interested in this role, check out more information on the Official website and apply now!