Weekend Care Assistants for Dunstable and Houghton

2 weeks ago


Dunstable, United Kingdom Violets Homecare Services Ltd Full time

_**WEEKEND CARE WORKERS FOR: AM (7-10.30am), TEA (3 - 6.30pm), PM (6.45-10.15pm) for Dunstable and Houghton Regis ** own car and drivers licence required. **_We are looking to recruit kind, caring, honest, reliable and trustworthy people to join our fantastic team of carers. **We are looking for**:

- _**WEEKEND MORNING (7-10.30am), WEEKEND TEA (3-6.30PM) AND WEEKEND EVENING (6.45-10.15pm) **_**care workers**:

- ** all posts would require your own transport (car) and a full drivers licence**.
- **As little or as many hours - we have flexible shifts available**

We work in Dunstable, Houghton Regis, Totternhoe and Eaton Bray supporting, caring and helping vulnerable adults and older people in their own homes.

You do not need experience as we can provide full paid training and support.

We offer lots of different types of support to our service users from meal and drink preparations, companionship, personal care, medication assistance, social activities, domestic support, shopping support and more.

We offer flexible working hours, permanent contract work / bank work, as long as you have a genuine want to help people, are kind, caring, reliable and committed, we can provide the work for you.

We offer very competitive rates of pay and for every call you do we pay £1 petrol (£1.50 for rural calls - villages), this coupled with local work in a small geographical area really helps our staff. _**The rates of pay shown are inclusive of the petrol contribution.**_

We have an overtime bonus scheme.

The ethos of Violets is very much about looking after and supporting people as we would want our family members to be looked after.

We have a fantastic reputation locally of which we are very proud.

Continuity of care is very important both for staff and service users so we allocate you rounds on the days you work and they are your usual shifts and service users.

Enabling people to stay in their homes and be safe is such a worthwhile career. Its never too late to get into care

If you are new to care and are unsure about a new role, we are more than happy to make time to have a chat with you and answer any queries you may have with no obligation to apply.

If you are successful at interview and are offered a position here at Violets, you would need to attend an In House Induction Day which you are paid to attend. You will also be set up with online training courses for; Safeguarding, Medication, Moving and Handling, Mental Capacity, Infection Control, Fire Safety, Health & Safety, Dementia Awareness, Nutrition and Hydration, Autism Awareness (where applicable), Pressure Ulcer Awareness, End Of Life, Food Hygiene, Catheter Care, Role of the Home Carer, Equality and Diversity, Person Centred Care. You will also undertake shadow training with experienced staff or supervisors in the community, which you are paid for.

We will complete an Enhanced DBS check for you and will require references to be completed.

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

**Salary**: £12.85-£19.20 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Dunstable, Bedfordshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Care Assistant


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