Community Care and Support Worker

4 months ago

Maidstone, United Kingdom Expertise Homecare (Central and West Kent) Ltd Full time

**Full Time Community Care and Support Worker - Must Hold Full UK Driving Licence**

**Salary**:£23,400 p/a pro rata **Hours**:37.5 hours **Days **5 days per week (2 days off per week, working alternative weekends) £12 per hour.

**The Role**

As a community care and support worker you will be visiting people at home or out in the community. Some things you might do:

- Helping people with washing and dressing to get ready for the day
- Assisting with meal preparation and medication
- Assisting with incontinence care
- Helping with shopping, household tasks, and meal planning
- Going out on walks/ cinema/ bowling and other activities
- Going to the farm for days out

The role of a care and support work is varied and very rewarding. We support children, adults, and elderly individuals with anything from day-to-day tasks to learning new skills and enjoying. We work with people from varied backgrounds and with varied care and support needs.

**Areas we cover**

We are looking for individuals to join our team in providing high quality care and support in Central & West Kent. The areas we cover are:

- Maidstone
- Tonbridge & Malling
- Tunbridge Wells
- Sevenoaks

**Pay Breakdown**

Our care calls are generally from 30-60 minutes per call, and we aim to keep these calls as close together as possible.

Our support calls are generally longer in duration from 1- 7 hours in duration.

Your total hours are made up of the following
- contact time with customers, travel time between customers, and waiting time up to 20 minutes. Waiting time over 20 minutes we calculate as an unpaid break. You are paid your salaried hourly rate for all time.

**Working Patterns**

You will be required to work a mixture of AM and PM shifts to meet your contracted hours each week. We start between 6/7am and finish at 10/10.30pm. You will get your rotas in advance, and you will have set days off.

**Company Car**

We know that doing community care is very hard on your personal vehicle so we have company cars that you can collect the start of your shift and return at the end. This means you are only use your own vehicle to commute to our offices in Maidstone. These cars come with fuel cards so you do not need to worry about paying for fuel.

If you use your own vehicle we pay 22p per mile or 44p mile if you collect a non-driver to do a double round together. Mileage is calculated from your home, round your care calls, then back to your home.

**Benefits**

You will be joining a friendly team working together to provide high quality care and support
- You get to meet new people
- Regular social and team events
- Qualifications and career development - NVQ and other training opportunities
- Friendly, supportive, and diverse team
- Company cars available for work use
- Competitive pay
- A tablet device to complete all your visit note records online

**This role would suit a variety of people**:

- A people person who enjoys meeting and talking to new people
- Someone with a caring nature who enjoys helping others
- Someone active who enjoys being on the go and trying new activities
- Good communication skills
- written and spoken English
- Positive individuals who enjoy being part of a team
- Someone who does not mind driving as there can be quite a lot of traveling through the day depending on the length and number of visits

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

**Salary**: £12.00 per hour

Expected hours: 16 - 37.5 per week

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Application question(s):

- Are you happy to travel to the areas we provide care and support
- Maidstone, Tonbridge & Malling, Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks?

Licence/Certification:

- Full UK driving licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

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