Care Assistant

Company Description
**Join the UK’s No. 1 home care provider for a professional career**

We are looking for Care Professionals who are passionate about making a difference to someone’s day, and giving outstanding care to local people who need support to live happily and independently in their homes. Our way of giving care is relationship-led, with huge rewards for our clients, their family and our Care Professionals alike. Our visits are a minimum of 1 hour so we have time to talk, and we carefully match our small teams with clients so you give care to the same people consistently. For this reason, we have the highest possible rating (Outstanding) from the industry regulatory body CQC, and awarded a 5-star employer year on year by the people who work for us.

Home Instead Windsor, Runnymede and West Spelthorne covers Addlestone, Ottershaw, Chertsey, Staines, Egham, Virginia Water, Englefield Green, Windsor, and all the areas in between.

**Job Description**:
We are looking for **Care Professionals** in our area with the availability to work at least 10 hours during the weekdays and a few hours on Saturday and Sunday every other weekend.

**Homecare Assistant Benefits**:

- ** Great rates of pay **-** £11-£14 per hour and** double pay for any calls carried out on bank holidays
- **_ Minimum of 1 hour calls_** **- giving you the time to care and get to know your clients
- ** Training**:

- a full induction programme where we provide award-winning training plus other training opportunities to develop your career
- Regular **support, supervision, and personal development plan**:

- ** Auto-enrolment pension scheme - **if applicable
- All physical and online **training paid **for post Recruitment Assessment Programme Day
- ** Anniversary rewards **after 3 years with us
- ** Mileage** paid at 30p a mile after first ten miles a day. Travel time included in contracted hours
- ** 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 discounts scheme **- supermarkets, high street stores and more

**Responsibilities**:
Being a Care Professional is an essential role in supporting older people to live well at home. With the support of our team and industry-leading training, you can feel fully equipped to deliver the high-quality care Home Instead has become known for.

Here’s what you could be doing:

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

**Qualifications**:
**What we ask for from our Care Professionals**
- Live locally.
- A full driving licence and have full use of a car.
- Highly reliable and ability to commit to regular contracted hours every week, including every other weekend.
- The right to work in the UK.
- A warm heart and caring nature.
- Professional or personal experience giving or receiving care valued.

**Our commitment to our Care Professionals**

It is of the utmost importance that we carefully attract and select the best quality people. We are dedicated to expertly training, professionally developing and handsomely rewarding our caregiving workforce. At Home Instead we commit to:

- Choosing the right people for the role.
- Putting our people into environments they will succeed.
- Giving them the tools to excel at their job.
- Providing the training, and support to progress.

Additional Information

We are looking for kind and compassionate people like you to join our Home Instead community. Whether you have direct experience in care, personally or professionally, or are just starting out - we offer industry leading training to all our care professionals to help you help others.

Click “Apply” today or call us on 01784 477 854 to learn more.