Care Assistant

**£15 per hour, guaranteed hours**

**Full time, part time, evenings and weekend availability**

We are looking for a professional care assistant to join our hourly homecare team. When you join us, you’ll discover how our community of colleagues are always there for each other, supporting our clients in and around Oxford.

If you are a caring individual who lives in or near Oxford, is eligible to work in the UK and holds a valid driving licence, this could be the role for you.

In return for your commitment and diligence when supporting our clients, we provide the following employment packages for our hourly carers:

- **Guaranteed pay contract** - consistent pay for an agreed minimum amount of hours every month
- You will have a nice mixture of 1-hour visits for hourly stand-alone clients but most of our calls will be at least 3 hours or longer. This work is covering our live-in carer breaks
- Options to work full time, part time, evenings and weekends
- **Excellent pay rates** - £15 per hour
- **Paid time and mileage between calls** - 45p a mile
- **Double pay** on bank holidays
- Generous refer a friend scheme using Care Friends app
- **FREE** Blue Light Card
- **FREE **Onboarding training with qualified trainers
- Access to the Care Certificate if you don’t already have it
- Access to free training on an ad hoc basis including diploma in health and social care
- **FREE** annual refresher training
- Access to our free employee assistance programme supporting in times of need
- **FREE **Enhanced DBS at induction
- Access to on call support when you are working

**The people we are looking for**:
As an hourly carer, you’ll be providing care, support and companionship to our clients in Oxfordshire who wish to live an independent life in their own homes. This will include providing personal care, assisting with household duties, supporting safe mobility in and outside of the home, companionship and running general errands, such as completing the weekly shop or collecting prescriptions.

As you will mostly likely be supporting clients to keep in touch with their community, local knowledge of the area is a plus. We also require you to have:

- Previous paid experience as a care assistant, domiciliary carer, support worker or personal healthcare assistant.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- A driving licence and your own transport is essential, with business insurance to drive your client
- Ability to use technology to a good level, as all of our systems are online you’ll spend less time writing admin and more time with your client
- The right to work in the UK
- Residence within Oxfordshire
- Providing quality care in people’s homes since 1967, Oxford Aunts is run by a team of experienced care professionals and is part of Sodexo and The Good Care Group._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 15-40 per week

**Salary**: £15.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Night shift
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Eynsham, Oxfordshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Do you hold a driving licence with access to your own vehicle?

**Experience**:

- care: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person