Care Asistant

**Are You Looking for a New Care Job in Shropshire?**

In one of our exciting roles, you will get to visit and care for people from all walks of life with various and unique requirements and needs.

Our main priority for this job role is to find people with the right values, behaviours and attitudes that match our own We’re seeking to recruit some great new support workers; people with the right values and behaviours to work in our home care service - could this be you?

You don’t need to have previous experience in this field, nor do you need qualifications - we’re happy to work with you to help you become an excellent care worker.

**Here are some of the amazing things you will be doing**:

- Assisting service users with bathing, grooming, and getting dressed
- Handling household tasks like grocery shopping and laundry
- Preparing and serving meals at the appropriate time
- Administering oral and topical medication
- Providing mental and emotional support
- Making recommendations to family members and healthcare personnel on the plan of care
- Working with other health care and social care professionals to provide the best possible care for our service users.

**Benefits**:

- Up to £11.50 per hour
- Flexible working hours
- Paid shadow shifts - To help you settle in
- Competitive Milage Pay
- Blue Light Card which provides discounts on thousands of retailers
- Free in-house training
- Opportunity to study NVQ in Health & Social Care

If this interests you, please don't hesitate to get in touch, we look forward to hearing from YOU

**About Us**

The team here at Hands on Care is made up of friendly and trained carers who are on hand when you need them for your personal and social care. But who are we?

Founded 10 years ago, Hands on care is a family run business with a dedicated team of carers that specialises in home care, often known as “domiciliary care”, offering for both social and personal care. We work closely with individuals and their families to ensure that they are receiving the very best personalised care possible.

Maintaining independence is important to many people, and we want people to feel rest assured that our team can help to encourage this, while being on hand for anything that is needed, even if it’s just for a friendly chat with a cup of tea

**The areas we cover**: Broughall, High Ercal, Higher Heath, Hodnet, Market Drayton, Muckleton, Newport, Prees, Roden, Rodington, Shawbury, Stanton Upon Hine, Telford, Tilstock, Upton Magna, Wellington, Wem, and Whitchurch.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 4-40 per week

**Salary**: £10.00-£11.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Wellington: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person