Care Assistant
Location: Peterborough/Stamford/Bourne and surrounding areas
Salary: £12 per hour (£13 per hour overtimewhen staff work past after 8pm and on Sundays)
Hours: Contracted/Full Time/Part Time/Variable/Zero Hours available
Shift patterns:
- Variable shifts between the Morning shift 7am – 2.45pm
- Afternoon shifts are 1.30pm to 9.30pm
Are you a team player?
Are you a kind and compassionate person looking to make a difference in people's lives?
Are you looking for an exciting new role with lots of progression opportunities?
Our clients offer an award-winning Domiciliary Care service, providing Care Coordination, Companionship, Live-in Care and Personal Care to support clients in their daily living in the comfort of their own homes. The head office is based in Bourne, however the company currently serves areas including Bourne, Stamford, Grantham, Peterborough and surrounding villages. They are registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide personal care.
The Role
The company have an excellent career opportunity for the role of Home Care Assistant to join their growing team in the Peterborough, Stamford and Bourne areas.
Perform light housekeeping tasks, such as dusting, vacuuming and changing bed clothes.
- Provide Companionship
- Accompany Service Users to medical appointments.
- Observe, monitor and record Service Users' physical and emotional well-being, and promptly report any changes to senior staff.
- Encourage and support Service Users to participate in social and recreational activities.
- Assist clients with personal care tasks, such as washing, dressing, eating and toileting.
- Assist in the safe lifting, transferring, repositioning and movement of clients.
Skills and Qualifications
- Proactive person who can use your own decision making
- Good leadership skills and confidence
- Reliable, conscientious and committed
- Good team player but confident about lone working
- Flexible and willing
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Excellent Organisational Skills and Good Time Keeping
- A willingness to learn and adapt
- To have Resourcefulness, Stamina, Motivation and Perseverance
- To always maintain Professionalism
- Experience of Care in the Community, including elderly clients with dementia and challenging needs.
- Car drivers are preferred but not essential.
- Basic cookery skills and hygiene.
- Experience of carrying out personal care.
- Empathetic to people and kind
- A desire to genuinely help other people and make a difference
Benefits
- Excellent hourly rate!
- A well-established home care provider who invests in their team
- Ongoing training and development.
- Career progression opportunities.
- Family/friendly working environment
- Working in some lovely rural villages
- Performance related bonus attached to annual appraisal
- £250 bonus paid on completion of Care Certificate and working 100 hours
- £200 refer a friend bonus on their completion of Care Certificate and working 100 hours
- Employee of the month award
- Pool lap top for use to complete online training for staff who may not have use of a computer at home
- DBS paid for
- Access to many online training courses via Citation
- Opportunity to gain NVQ and other qualifications
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable company, please do not hesitate to apply.