Upminster Care Assistant

2 weeks ago

Upminster, United Kingdom Home Instead Full time

Company Description
Home Instead Senior Care is the world’s leading provider of non-medical care and companionship services for older people. With minimum visits of one hour, award winning training and an excellent reputation we are immensely proud of the quality of care we provide. We match our CAREGivers to our clients based on mutual interests and hobbies to help build bonds of trust and enables us to provide personalised support.

**Job Description**:
We are looking for people with kind, compassionate hearts who want to make a true difference to the quality of life for our clients to join our team in** Upminster **as a CAREGiver. As a CAREGiver, you will provide a variety of non-medical services to help them keep independent in their own home.
- Home Help - Collecting prescriptions, light housekeeping, checking food expiry dates, pet care, home maintenance, shopping, collecting prescriptions.
- Companionship - become a companion and encourage conversation, provide reminders for medication, activities, outings, stimulate and encourage activities - walking, hobbies and monitoring diet and eating
- Personal Assistance - please note some duties are light personal assistance and may involve just being present for reassurance rather than actually carrying out bathing, dressing and grooming. Please call our Recruiter Lorraine to gain more an insight into the duties involved.
- Dementia Assistance - assist with morning wake up calls and evenings services, help with continence care, dressing and bathing, eating, drinking and medication reminders.

You do not need any experience or particular qualifications to become a CAREGiver. However, it would be useful to have some experience of working in a care setting or interacting with older people. This could be personal experience of caring for a family member or voluntary experience. You will have a passion for supporting others and pride yourself on delivering an outstanding service. You will be reliable, trustworthy and respectful. You will enjoy building professional friendships and comfortable in spending time in the company of others.

Additional Information
If you are looking for work that is extremely rewarding and satisfactory we are offering zero hour contracts that can lead into guaranteed average hour contracts from 16-30+ hours with various fixed schedules.

Why Home Instead?
- **
Minimum of 1 hour visits and same clients you will visit each week, planned 2 weeks in advance**
- Paid shadows, introductions and training on completion of the 3 day Learning and Development Programme
- Client and CAREGiver matching service
- Flexible working hours
- Free DBS
- CQC rated outstanding

Pay & benefits:

- COVID safe training
- **
£20.50 / £24.00 Bank Holiday rate per hour**
- 28 Paid holiday, Pro Rata
- Company Pension scheme
- Health Care Scheme
- Store discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- **
£200 Refer a friend bonus scheme**
- Up to 45p per mile
- **
£100 Bonus payment on completion of the Care Certificate**
- Opportunities for career progression
- Social Events
- PPE provided
- Long Service Awards

Opportunities:

- Learning and Development Opportunities
- QCF Diplomas and Specialist Courses

We are extremely proud of the work we do, why not give us a call today and join our team Please click on I’m interested or alternatively contact us on 01277 822858.

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