Home Care Worker

**Monthly, various shift patterns. £12.65 Monday to Friday £13.90 weekends,**

**Guaranteed Hours** Work or personal Experience is preferred but not essential as full training will be provided.

As a Home Care Assistant, you will receive**:40p per mile**, **free uniform**, **free DBS**,, guaranteed contracts, fixed work patterns, paid travel time and great rates of pay.

**JohnJasper Care** are currently recruiting permanent **Home Care Workers (experienced or new to care), **for our well managed home care and community support services for adults covering **North Shields, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay Surrounding areas**.

**Please be aware if you do not live in the area of Whitley Bay then you would NEED to be a a driver of a vehicle to get around. If you in further then the area without a suitable vehicle then you will not be considered for the role.**

**JohnJasper Care is rated Good by CQC and managed by staff with decades of experience operating successful home care organisations.**

**Free DBS Application if required.**
Calls are a mixture of longer calls for support in the community, or in clients homes providing short break respite for family carers or traditional homecare.
There are no large gaps for dom care runs and all calls are very close to each other.

This community-based Home Care Assistant role will be supporting clients with a variety of needs including personal care within their own homes, you will need a UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle. Our Home Care Assistant role allows for flexibility and delivers care to our clients between 7am to 2pm and 4pm to 10pm.

Our **excellent staff reviews** on our Facebook and Google page highlight the supportive, open and supportive work atmosphere we believe in, along with **excellent client and family reviews on homecare.co.uk**, who comment on the consistently high level of service we provide.

**Experience is preferred but not essential** as full training is provided to those new to care sector.

**Initial interviews and registrations are completed remotely**

**Benefits**:

- **Guaranteed Hours**:

- **Thorough induction process and on-going support systems**:

- **Use Careplanner app, care plans, notifications to office, diary notes and medication.**:

- **Thorough induction process and on-going support systems**:

- **Supportive and knowledgeable management team**:

- **Full-time or Part time hours**:

- **Travel Time (included in pay rates)**:

- **Referral scheme £250 for new employee and £250 for referring employee**:

- **Mileage paid at 40p per mile**:

- **£250 loyalty bonus paid after working a set number of hours**:

- **Fortnightly pay**:

- **Paid Induction**:

- **Good rates of pay,**:

- **Bank Holiday increments.**:

- **Free DBS Application if required**.
- **Additional training and upskilling provided**:

- **Cycle scheme for discounted bicycle purchases or use of company electric bikes**

**JohnJasper Care** are a family owned home care agency who have many years’ experience working in the health and social care sector. We are based in Newcastle upon Tyne and cover the wider North East areas. We currently provide homecare for North Tyneside & Northumberland Local Authority and have on-going contracts that require staff. Care is at the **HEART **of everything we do, it’s our values that inspire us, not profits. We are looking for enthusiastic and compassionate Home Care Assistants to support our clients

Qualifications and Skills
- Right to live and work in the UK.
- Sociable and enjoy supporting clients with additional needs
- Team player
- Values led and committed to providing excellent care.
- Referee contact details covering the past three years of employment or suitable character reference for gaps of employment.
- Driving license and own vehicle advantageous

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

Pay: £12.65-£13.70 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Childcare
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Sick pay

Shift:

- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift

Work days:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Can you commute reliably between calls via car or bicycle?
- Would you like Full time or Part time?

**Experience**:

- health and social care: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person