Home Care Assistant

7 months ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Age Care Advice Full time

We have an excellent career opportunity for the role of **Home Care Assistant** to join our team here at **Age Care Advice** in the **Peterborough** area.

**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? Then we want to hear from you**

**Hours**: We have part time roles working 16-20 hours a week and also full time roles working 37.5 hours a week. To make it fair for all staff, we all work alternative weekends.

We do also offer zero and flexible working hour contracts if this suits people better than set weekly contracted hours.

**Shift patterns**: We have excellent shift patterns to suit everybody. We're currently looking for staff to work 12 hour day shifts.
- Morning / lunch shifts are 7am-3pm
- Afternoon / evening shifts 4pm-10pm however some shifts may be 8-4/dependent on service user requirements.

**Pay**:£12 per hour and we pay £13 per hour when staff work past after 8pm and on Sundays

**Benefits / Package**
- Excellent hourly rate
- A well-established home care provider who invests in their team
- A growing company making a huge difference in people's lives everyday.
- Excellent management and supportive staff.
- Ongoing training and development.
- Career progression opportunities.
- We really care about our workforce
- We really care about our service users and aim to offer high quality, individualised carWe try our best to find great matches between care staff and service users
- All private paying contracts so care packages can be really tailored to suit people's individual needs
- 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 hour
- 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 by us
- Access to many online training courses via Citation
- Opportunity to gain NVQ and other qualifications

**Who are we?**

At Age Care Advice, we 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. Age Care Advice is registered with the Care Quality Commission to provide personal care.
- 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

**The role**:

- 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.

If you have any questions or would like some further information on the role, please 'APPLY' now and we can arrange a phone call at your earliest convenience. We can’t wait to hear from you.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: £12.00-£13.00 per hour

Expected hours: 16 - 37.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Day shift

Application question(s):

- Would you describe yourself as a kind and compassionate person?
- What location are you based please?
- Do you require sponsorship to work in the UK? We don't provide this unfortunately.
- Would you prefer to work our 7am to 3pm shifts, 4pm to 10pm shifts or are you flexible for both?
- Please can you 100% confirm you 100% don't need sponsorship?

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence and your own car (required)

Work Location: In person

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