Weekend In-home Care Assistant

Company Description
**Are you looking for a highly rewarding job that gives you a warm fuzzy feeling? Join Home Instead giving **outstanding** care, supporting locals to live happily & healthily in their own homes.**

**_ 96% of our Care Professionals are proud to work for Home Instead and you could be too_**

**Highly rewarding on every level with r**egular clients & hours at a times that work for you. Feel good about your work and what you do. Make a **difference**

**Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of care and companionship services.**

At Home Instead Windsor and Runnymede we deliver truly rewarding relationship-led care and companionship to our local elderly community to allow them to live independently in their own homes.

Giving peace of mind to family members and friends. We promote Community engagement and help with interests and pastimes. Supporting our Clients to visit Local Clubs and activities

As the leading provider of relationship-led care (we are rated OUTSTANDING by CQC), we take care to match our Care Professionals to clients and provide the highest quality of care to help our clients continue to live safe, well and independently at home.

**Job Description**:
We will carefully match you to our clients, in your local community, and you will support them to live happy, independent lives by providing:

- Help with everyday tasks such as meal preparation and light housework
- Assisting your client with their medication
- Personal care - supporting our clients with the essentials such as bathing, showering, dressing, and grooming to keep them healthy and independent
- Companionship - ensuring a client enjoys regular and meaningful social interaction is an important part of your visit
- Accompanying to appointments, shopping, or attending social/community events

**Qualifications**:
You may never have thought about working in care, however you probably have the life experience and skills we’re looking for: kindness, empathy and patience.

If you like making people smile, then you already have the skills to be a great Care Professional, so no prior experience of care is required. All your paid training will take place at our office in Chertsey where you will meet like minded colleagues
- You have the right to work in the UK
- You have a full driving licence and access to a fully insured car
- That you have a warm heart and caring nature and love a chat
- You are reliable, responsible and have a passion for making a difference to someone’s day.
- That you live locally or are happy to travel to our clients.
- That you have good communication skills
- Experience in care (personal, dementia or other) is valuable, however full training will be given

Additional Information
**Care Professional Benefits**:

- ** Great rates of pay** Weekend hours from £14, plus double pay on bank holidays.
- ** Minimum of 1-hour visits** no uniform required as we believe it’s more friendly that way.
- ** Paid annual leave.**:

- ** Paid mileage between calls** after the first 10 miles (30p/mile)
- Award winning, accredited training and development as standard - time and qualification paid for by Home Instead. £250 on completion
- Regular support visits, team meetings and social get togethers
- ** Employee referral bonus programme - **for any successful referrals from employees we offer £100 after their first call and a further £200 after 6 months.
- ** Employee assistance programme**:

- access to counselling and other benefits to help with the everyday
- ** Exclusive High Street discounts scheme with the Blue Light Card**
- DBS fee refunded on first day.
- Free PPE and Lateral Flow Testing
- Treats for special occasions, coffee mornings, evening socials.
- Minimum of 10 hours per week is required

Extra hours available should you want them - Just ask our schedulers