Home Care Assistant

The Private Care Company aim to employ and retain the highest quality care assistants in Brighton and Hove and in return for your skills, experience and commitment we offer excellent working conditions and benefits including:

- £13.14/hr + paid holiday
- Enhanced rates on Bank Holidays
- Guaranteed regular hours and additional hours/overtime available if wanted
- Structured routes with clustered calls, caring for the same individuals each day
- Payment for travel time
- Paid petrol expenses (for drivers)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Minimum 30-minute call time
- Excellent career progression and extensive training opportunities including The Care Certificate and Health and Social Care Diplomas (Levels 3, 4 and 5)
- £150 Training Incentive payment paid on completion of The Care Certificate
- A friendly and supportive management team
- Regular communication including monthly newsletters and recognition awards
- **Job Description**_

The Private Care Company is a private, award winning and fully independent home care agency. We pride ourselves on our excellent reputation to provide high quality home care services which support our clients to remain independently living in their own homes for as long as possible.

We’re currently looking to recruit several full-time care assistants living in the Brighton & Hove area. Ideally, you’ll have relevant experience and qualifications, however, we offer full training to those wishing to enter the care industry who have a caring nature and demonstrate our core values of kindness and empathy.
- **Key Accountabilities**:_
- To deliver all tasks stated on the care plans to an excellent standard and in accordance with all The Private Care Company’s policies and procedures, best practice, agreed standards, legislative requirements, relevant regulations
- To carry out and assist clients of The Private Care Company with a variety of personal and practical care tasks which may include helping to wash, getting dressed, light housework, laundry, shopping etc.
- To support client’s food and fluid intake as directed by the care plan, and to ensure documentation of all intake as per training
- To maintain care skills at the required level and undertake such training and development as may from time to time be required
- To communicate with and report any incidents to the Care Manager as necessary to ensure high standards of care are delivered
- To liaise with other professionals such as district nurses, doctors, pharmacists, occupational therapists etc, to ensure that clients receive a high standard of care
- To manage own workload of allocated client visits and to be responsible for documenting each client visit on the online care planning app
- **Skills / Experience / Knowledge**:_
- The Care Certificate (full training provided)
- Multi-skilled care delivery capability
- Good written and oral communication skills
- **Person Profile**:_
- Team player
- Ability to think on feet
- Kind, caring and patient
- Able to manage difficult situations
- Reliable
- Lives in local area - **we are unable to provide sponsorship for overseas applicants**:

- Has transport (car, bike etc.)
- **Working Hours**:_
- 0700 - 1900hrs
- 3 or 4 day routes available to include 1 weekend day each week

care, support worker, healthcare worker, domiciliary care

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £12.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free or subsidised travel
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift

**Experience**:

- care: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- driving licence and access to a car (preferred)
- UK postcode in the Brighton area (required)

Work Location: On the road