Home Care Assistant

Do you have experience working in retail as a shop assistant?

Then you already have many of the skills needed to become an excellent **Home Care Assistant**.

Want to try something new? Choose a career with **Be Caring**.

**_Applicants must be based in _**_Leeds_**_, UK._**

You will be recruited to a dedicated care team operating in:

- Tingley (LS27)
- Gildersome (LS27)
- Churwell (LS27)

For this role we are recruiting:

- 3 x Drivers
- 2 x walkers

Shift pay rather than pay per call, which means you are paid from the start of your first call to the end of your last call within a shift.
**Pay: £11.50 p/hr (drivers) & £11.00 p/hr (walkers)**
- Mileage - 40p per mile for drivers / 15p per mile for cyclists
- Part-time hours available
- Full-time hours available
- Bonus schemes*: up to £300 new starter, £300 Refer a Friend, £250 annual bonus. £25 birthday gift voucher.

As a **Home Care Assistant **for **Be Caring**, your working hours will be aligned to our shift patterns, which includes early starts, late evenings and weekend working:

- Early shift: 7:00am - 2:00pm
- Late shift: 4:00pm - 10:00pm

As a **Home Care Assistant **for** Be Caring **we will agree your working pattern, setting 2-week rota which includes:

- Alternate full weekends, or every Saturday or every Sunday
- Evenings as agreed within your working hours

**Benefits**
- Fully funded DBS.
- Paid induction training: 1 week classroom-based (Monday - Friday), 2 days shadowing and additional online modules.
- Training development: funded Level 2 and other accredited courses.
- Holiday pay: annual leave accumulates with working hours and length of service.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): 24-hour helpline, advice and guidance for yourself and dependents.
- Union membership (optional): through our partnership with the GMB.

If you have previous retail experience, you'll already have many of the skills needed to make an excellent **Home Care Assistant **for **Be Caring**. Patience, empathy, and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively are all essential qualities for this role.

As a **Home Care Assistant **working within **Morley**, you will:

- Provide personal care that protects people's dignity.
- Promote independence using enabling approaches.
- Support people to meet their outcomes, involving families and professionals.
- Connect people to their communities accessing local support and services.
- Deliver personalised care through individual choice and control.
- Be a strong and effective communicator, documenting, reporting, and sharing information with the right people at the right time.

**Induction Training**

We are looking for people with **Be Caring** values to join our team. For this role you do not need care experience, we recognise you will have many transferable skills from previous roles, for example as a shop assistant. We will provide you with the training you need to be an outstanding **Home Care Assistant**. As a **Home Care Assistant** for **Be Caring**, you will be provided with comprehensive induction training on:

- Be Caring values, going Above & Beyond to meet personal outcomes.
- Dignity and respect, safeguarding and equality and diversity
- Confidentiality and professional boundaries.
- Fluids and nutrition and safe administration of medication.
- Moving and positioning, basic life support, and pressure sores (React to Red)
- Infection prevention and control, health and safety.
- Learning Disabilities (Oliver McGowan Tier 1), mental health and capacity.

**Benefits**:

- Bonus schemes
- Referral programme
- Annual Bonus
- Funded DBS
- Additional leave
- Flexible schedule
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Union membership