Care Assistant
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- WhereShropshire
- Posted4 September 2024
As a Home Instead Care Professional you will support individuals in their own home. Allowing them to continue living life their way, putting their wishes at the very heart of what we do.
Visits are minimum of 1 hour, giving you valuable time with each and everyone of your clients. You will visit a number clients regularly, allowing you to build positive rapport and familiarisation.
Your primary responsibility will be to assist clients, providing companionship and stimulation with their daily activities, ensuring their safety, comfort and maintaining their emotional health and wellbeing.
This includes but is not limited to:
- Personal Care: Assisting with bathing, grooming, dressing, and toileting, when required.
- Medication Reminders: Ensuring clients take their medications as prescribed.
- Meal Preparation: Planning and preparing nutritious meals according to dietary needs.
- Light Housekeeping: Assisting with light cleaning, laundry, and maintaining a clean and safe environment.
- Transportation: Providing transportation for clients to appointments, errands, and social outings. Giving them the freedom and choice when required.
The only certificate you'll need to have to start this role is a safe working Vehicle and a full U.K Driver’s Licence is essential.
Full training is provided, your compassionate and patient nature, with a genuine desire to support others, excellent communication and interpersonal skills is what is needed for you to succeed in the role.
Please also note this role is UK based and the right to work in the UK will need to be established as part of the recruitment process. Please be aware we do not hold a Sponsor Licence.
Our Benefits include:
- Competitive rates of pay starting at £12.10 per hour
- Double time on bank holidays
- Paid Mileage
- Paid Travel Time
- Paid training and ongoing training and development opportunities
- Pension Scheme
- BHSF Health program
- Benefits and discounts program
- Refer a Friend Scheme
- Ongoing Loyalty incentive scheme for every year you are with the company
- Company Events and employee engagement throughout the year.
And much more!
Make a real difference to someone's life. Join Home Instead and become part of our family. Whether you have previous experience in care or this is a new path for you, there is unrivalled support, training, and guidance to help you establish and progress a career in care.
Want to know more? Contact our Recruitment Department, on 01952 913219 and they will happily discuss the role further, and tell you anything you need to know, Or click to see more before you call: www.homeinstead.co.uk/southtelford
What this role involves
General background for care worker roles. This listing’s own employer, location, pay and hours are shown above.
- Chat with clients and get to know their background, interests and needs
- Help with washing, dressing and personal care
- Make food, assist with eating and make sure medication is taken if needed
- Typical pay (UK)
- £20,000 starting · £25,000 experienced
- Typical hours
- 35 to 45 a week
Career background: National Careers Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
Applications open on Home Instead's own careers site.
