Home Care Assistant

4 days ago

Cheltenham, United Kingdom Windrush Care Full time

**_Hours available_**
- **Weekends** - Any hours available between 07:00am - 22:00pm

**Hourly wage: - £13.55 Saturday and Sunday (40p per mile mileage allowance)**

**_ Our story_**

We are a family-owned domiciliary care company based in the centre of Cheltenham, covering areas in and around Cheltenham and the North Cotswolds.

At Windrush Care, we aim to make it as simple for those families and individuals that want to make their own choices for care at home and to provide the real personalised and bespoke alternative to residential care, keeping people in their own homes with our support, for as long as possible.

And this ability to provide a continued and successful service, rests upon the quality of our care staff along with the support they receive from our excellent office team - who also do care calls themselves. We believe we should never ask our carers to do something we aren’t willing to do ourselves.

**_ What’s actually involved as a home care assistant at Windrush Care?_**
- Companionship visits
- Assistance with personal care tasks
- Overseeing medication and ensuring our clients are safe with their medication
- Assisting with housework, gardening or even walking the dog
- Preparing and cooking meals and drinks
- Helping with errands such as food shopping, posting letters or picking up prescriptions.

**_ Where will you be working?_**

We cover in and around Cheltenham centre, Bishops Cleeve, Benhall, Leckhampton, Charlton Kings, Prestbury, Warden Hill and Montpellier. There is also opportunity to increase your hours by attending calls in the North Cotswolds if you are able.

**_ Why work for Windrush Care?_**
- Flexible working hours - Various hours are available to suit your lifestyle.
- Full face to face training sessions teaching the Care Certificate, alongside mandatory Medication, Moving and Handling and Emergency First Aid at Work training.
- All of our induction and update training is provided at no cost to you.
- Opportunity to shadow our existing staff - allowing you to familiarise yourself with our clients and our company.
- Minimum hourly calls - giving you the time to provide person centred care
- Clear and concise rotas - with no unexpected amendments or demands on your availability.
- A genuinely supportive management team who are with you from first contact and continuing through your Windrush Care Journey, to going out and being an independent carer for our clients - they are always at hand, even if its just for a chat.

**_ Benefits in working at Windrush Care?_**
- _ _Paid mileage of 40p per mile from home to your first call and onwards throughout your day.
- Paid holidays and Enhanced bank holiday rates
- Fortnightly pay
- Regular shift patterns
- Supportive office team - open door policy.
- 3 C’s Quarterly staff meetings (Coffee, Cake and Chat)
- Job security - some of our carers have been with us for over 5 years.
- Free uniform
- Cost of DBS reimbursed after 3 months
- Festive company events - who doesn’t like a party?

**_ What we are looking for in our home care assistants?_**
- Previous experience in a similar role would be beneficial, but not essential as full training, shadowing and support will be given to new carers.
- Excellent communication skills are essential as you will most likely be working 1:1 with our clients within the community.
- A genuine desire to help others and keep our clients independent and well cared for.
- Right to work in the UK
- Driving license and access to vehicle
- On update DBS system or would need you to complete a new DBS check
- Reliable and honest
- To be resident in and around Gloucestershire

**Phone - **
(01242) 886020 to speak to one of our office team.
- Right to work in UK
- Driving license and access to vehicle
- On update DBS system or would need you to complete a new DBS check
- Genuine desire to care for others
- Reliable, compassionate, honest and patient
- To be resident in and around Gloucestershire

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