Evening Care Assistant, Bedford, UK

Home Instead has won multiple awards over the years and have built an excellent reputation in the local area for truly first-class care. This home care service with the personal touch is different to any other care organisation in the area, providing a minimum of 1-hour home visits to a predominantly private client base, but the focus being on companionship and loneliness prevention.

The average visiting time is actually far higher at about 80 minutes and our friendly office team are sensible about travel time and distances as well so you'll be visiting clients within a pre-agreed area to suit you.

Are you looking for Evening care work? If so, we have the perfect position for you

Do you have a caring nature or have you ever had experience caring for other people?  This could be anyone from grandparents, partners, siblings or in a formal care setting.

The demand for care is rising and we are on the search for kind and compassionate individuals to join our family-feel team to help support our clients in the Evenings.

Our Evening care assistants usually work on shift patterns from 18:15 - 21:45

Typical duties include:

• Help around the home

• Assistance with making dinner or meal preparation

• Companionship

• Medication reminders

• Light housekeeping

• Help getting ready for bed

We value our CAREGivers as much as we value our clients and offer flexible hours, paid training, great pay and employee benefit schemes.

No qualifications needed as full training is provided

What we are looking for: 

• We would like you to have your own reliable transportation to visit our clients and be willing to travel across our local areas.

• An excellent timekeeper who is organised and reliable.

• Compassionate and kind individuals.

• People who always treat clients with dignity and respect.

• A good listener, be able to communicate clearly and build relationships with clients and their families in a polite and friendly manner.

This position is ideally suited to drivers with their own transport.

What Home Instead Bedford Can Offer You 

• Earn up to £

• Flexible shifts – Whether you're looking for a couple of shifts a week in the Evening or Evening care work on the weekends, we can offer you shifts so you can work whenever it suits you.

• Ongoing support – we want to make sure you get the most out of your career. Our team will help you along the way. We'll always be there for any advice or guidance you need.

• Mileage & travel time allowance - Get paid towards the miles you cover.

• Enhanced rate on bank holidays - Earn at double rates over bank holidays

• Genuine Career Development & Progression Opportunities  - We support all of our team along their career path and help people progress to where they want to be.

• Refer a friend scheme - Get additional bonuses and rewards when you refer a friend to work with us

• Industry-Leading Training - It's not just our care that is award-winning, we have one of the best training programs in the industry.

• Full PPE Protection - We ensure both our care professionals and clients are protected and safe at all times.

• Care Certification - Once you have completed your extended training, you will be awarded your industry-recognised Care Certificate. 

Once you've completed your training,  you will be carefully matched to your clients and asked to visit them in their own homes. Your role is to help them feel as comfortable as possible, support them with anything from shopping and cooking meals, to personal hygiene assistance and companionship.

It's really important to be able to build up trust with the client you're visiting so that they feel comfortable opening up and discussing any issues or needs with you. We treat our clients and care professioanls with dignity, respect, kindness, and compassion.