Community Care Worker

**CONTRACTED SHIFTS**:

- **KNOW WHEN YOU'RE WORKING... AND WHEN YOU'RE NOT**

**Job Role**

You will be visiting people in the comfrot of their own homes in the Morecambe community. You will be supporting a range of people all with different homes and personalities with varying needs over the age of 65. You will support service users in many different ways to prevent unnecessary hospital and care home admissions. Some visits will be lone working, some visits will be colleague accompanied. You will be an active and valued member of our care team.

**What is the position?**

We like applicants to know exactly what the position is before getting the job and getting a nasty surprise with a rota you are not comfortable with. At MoralCare, you are scheduled the same shift schedule every 2 weeks, so you know when you are working and when you are not.

**Duties (vary depending on the person you support)**
- Administer & manage medication
- Order & collect medication
- Support with personal care (washing/dressing/commode care/catheter care/ continence care)
- Support people with dementia
- Light domestic duties
- Meal preparation and cooking
- Supporting people to make GP appointments, referrals
- Companionship, emotional support
- Moving & handling
- Dignified end of life care
- Attending weekly team meetings

**Requirements**:

- An enhanced DBS check (funded by us)

**Wages**
- £11.05 Qualified rate (Health &Social Care Diploma/NVQ)
- 25p per mile to cover petrol costs (we will help you claim more from HMRC if required)

**Travel**

All of our service users are all based in Morecambe - though we plan to expand further a field in the distant future. All home visits are scheduled as close to each other as possible, 2 miles is our average distance between jobs. We have an app that calculates your mileage between jobs accurately. You haven't got to worry about clock watching or mileage submission.

**Why Work for Moral Care?**
- Excellent pay and outstanding reputation
- Alternate weekends off
- Have full support from your manager and colleagues.
- Biweekly paid meetings and 1 to 1 support
- We are a company with an excellent reputation and looking for quality carers to help us grow further.
- We cover the cost of qualifications, uniform and enhanced DBS checks.
- Employee of the month

**Why is this a crucial role?**

Without community carers the NHS crumbles. Abuse goes unnoticed, people have more falls an injury with no support, peoples mental health plummets because they have no one to speak to. People bed block in hospital because there are no care packages to discharge them safely to their home where they long to be. You are needed to make a difference and the misconception that carers are brew makers must change, MoralCare is making a difference to the sector, but we need your support to do it

**Lets play MYTHBUSTERS**

**DID YOU KNOW? The average daily work commute in the North West is 20 miles? Our community carers travel only 10 miles per shift. Our carers are paid for all miles they cover, PLUS we pay them for their travelling TIME whilst they drive to their next job - that means getting paid to bop away to some music or make a hands-free personal call. One of the many MoralCare perks**

**MYTH: Care work is a low paid and unappreciated job.**
**BUSTED: We pay £11.05ph + mileage We work on the front line with our team and make sure staff satisfaction is one of our main priorities. Managers and our services users appreciate the front line to no end - including the public One of our carers had a chocolate bar left on their windscreens by a member of public to thank them for their service.**

**MYTH: I'll have a different rota every week. I won't be able to plan my life around it.**
**BUSTED: We have a CONTRACTED shift schedule so carers know when they're working, and when they're not**

**MYTH: I will be unsupported by management and expected to do things they wouldn't dream of doing.**
**BUSTED: Our managers work on the front line and have a zero tolerance policy to poor treatment to our front line heroes.**

**MYTH: I'll be sent to the moon and back, and be expected to do it in 5 minutes.**
**BUSTED: All of our jobs are within Morecambe and are in exceptionally close range, tight knit bubbles.**

**MYTH: I'll be sent to places I dont know and service users I wont know.**
**BUSTED: We ensure you meet all service users during shadowing. When new service users join us, all staff members get a brief and access to a fully comprehensive care plan before the commencement of care.**

**MYTH: I'll have to count every single mile to make sure I get paid for it. I'll forget and miss out on miles**
**BUSTED: We have an app that automatically clocks you in and out of people homes and calculates your mileage for you, dont worry about that little pin on your dashboard ever again**

**MYTH: I wont be supported, left to my own devices and snapped at by management when I need help.**
**BUSTED: We have a fully su