Care Assistant £12.70-£13.70

Company Description
**Make a difference every day by putting a smile on your clients’ faces**

Competitive pay rates per hour visiting time of **£12.70 -£13.70 per hour, and double time for Bank Holidays**

Home Instead Southampton provides a range of care and support services for older people. We're looking for caring people to provide quality care within the local community, We cover areas such as** Shirley, Whiteley, Park Gate, Sarisbury Green, Netley & Portswood **You could be the next person who can really make a difference.

For us, home care means keeping people where they are the happiest - in their own homes, surrounded by their memories in their own environment.

We personality match and provide our Care professionals with the training and support that they need to provide only the highest quality of care.

**Job Description**:
We are looking for people with kind, compassionate hearts who want to make a difference to the quality of life for our clients. Our highly respected Care Professionals are at the heart of what we do, providing the very best home care and helping us elevate the care experience.

With no set shift patterns, we can offer you work to fit in and around your family and lifestyle. With immediate starts available for those looking to start a career in care or those who already have experience of care.

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

- Companionship and help around the home
- Preparation and support with meals
- Prompting and assisting your client with their medication
- Supporting with personal care and to get dressed
- Social visits and support with appointments and shopping trips
- Home Instead are unique in the care industry as all our visits are a minimum of 1 hour. We believe that this time is needed for you to establish meaningful relationships with your clients and make a REAL difference to their lives everyday

As a Care Professional at Home Instead you will receive industry leading training, great rates of pay and 24/7 support from our office team.
- Excellent rates of pay, **£12.70 - £13.70 **Double time for bank holidays
- With guaranteed hours contracts to fit around your lifestyle
- Full or part-time hours available
- All visits are a minimum of an hour
- Paid mileage, 30P - 45p per mile
- Paid training
- Paid shadowing visits
- Ongoing support from Team Leaders
- Regular team meet-ups and social events
- Start your care career with us and benefit from award winning training, including Care Certification, City & Guilds Dementia Training and Parkinson’s Disease specialist training

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

If you have a knack for 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 Southampton with our award-winning training team.

Additional Information

We ask you have a means of transport as clients are predominantly cared for in there own homes, or would like you to accompany them on appointments or outings

**Care Professional Benefits**
- ** Great Hourly Rates of pay (up to £13.70 for evenings & weekends)**:

- ** Double time on Bank Holidays**:

- ** Employee referral scheme of £200**:

- ** Pension, plus holiday pay and paid mileage**:

- ** Non-Uniform for a friendly and professional service**:

- ** Paid introduction/shadowing calls - you will shadow an existing care professional so you get to know the Clients**:

- ** Average hour (or guaranteed hours) contracts available**:

- ** Employee benefits portal - with discounts at over 200 outlets**:

- ** Ongoing wellbeing support from your field care supervisor, and out of hours telephone assistance.**:

- ** Friendly and supportive management and office team.**:

- ** Employee assistance program for your health and welfare**:

- ** £400 paid towards your NVQ Diploma (optional)**:

- ** £75 paid towards your VRQ's bonus (optional)**:

- ** Blue Light Discount card eligibility**:

- ** Opportunities for Career progression**

Earn up to **£13.70 **per hour and **£27.40** Bank Holiday