Community Home Care Assistant for Stoneycroft and

**Help Us Shape the Future of Care**:
We are looking for value-driven people to join our home care team supporting customers within our local communities. We are looking for people to provide outstanding, person-centred care to customers living across North Liverpool including **Old Swan & Stoneycroft (L4)**

**Why Join Be Caring?**:
Joining the Team at Be Caring Liverpool, you will become a valued colleague with the UK's largest employee-owned provider of community care services. This means you are a part owner and as such you will be integral in our organisations goals and aspirations for shaping the future of the adult care sector.

We are also a social-enterprise; this means we invest in our local communities, working to improve the lives of local people whether this be through meaningful care to our customers or providing job opportunities with career development routes.

**Our Benefits Include**:

- **£9.90p/hr** for walkers and **£10.40p/hr** for drivers
- Hours to suit you with Full and Part time roles available
- Mileage paid for drivers and cyclists with competitive rates paid - **40p per mile (drivers) & 15p per mile (cyclists)**:

- Up to** £300** new starter bonus (based on the number of hours you work) - Be paid to join our team
- Refer a friend payment scheme - Up to **£300**, bring your friends and family along with you on your journey with Be Caring
- Comprehensive induction training program, this is delivered by our wonderful Care Trainer Mary and is paid for your full attendance
- Complete your 6-month probation period and you are eligible for the** Health and Social Care diploma**.
- We cover the cost of sending away for your enhanced DBS, so no added stresses to think about
- FREE 24hr access to Employee Assistance Programme, your wellbeing and health matters to us
- We work in partnership with GMB Union working together to get the best employment terms and conditions for our workforce.

**Working Hours and Shift Patterns***:

- Early shifts: 7:00am - 3:00pm
- Late shifts: 3:00pm - 10:30pm
- Alternate weekend working

**The Role**:
You do not need care experience. If you have the right values, we will provide you with the training you need to be an outstanding **Community **Home Care Assistant.** As a **Community **Home Care Assistant**, you will provide care and support to meet individual personal care needs. 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**:
All training is fully funded, and you will be paid for your time to complete the training. As a **Community **Home Care Assistant**, you will be provided with a comprehensive induction training on:

- Community wellbeing, individual wellbeing and personal outcomes;
- Fluids and nutrition;
- Medication, moving and handling, basic life support and first aid;
- Infection prevention and control, health and safety;
- Professional boundaries, confidentiality, equality, and diversity;
- Safeguarding, mental health and capacity

**Support**:
At Be Caring, we are committed to the personal and professional career development of all colleagues so that you can ‘Be the Best you can be'. As a** Community Home Care Assistant**, you will be provided with:

- Full induction and shadowing programme.
- Training to complete the Care Certificate.
- Access to additional training and qualifications through the apprenticeship levy.
- Level 2 Health and Social Care qualification (on completion of six-month probation period)
- Quarterly Be Supported sessions.
- An annual appraisal and personal development plan.