Female Home Care Assistant

**_Be a Care-Giving Day-Maker_**:
**_Our Mission “Is to be care-giving day-makers, hope-builders, smile-givers, life-changers, community-warriors with the will to make a difference.” Join our dedicated community team and help us to enrich the lives of others._**

**_Join our dedicated community team today_**:
We are recruiting a minimum of 2 full-time or 3 part-time **Home Care Assistants **to provide care and support to people living in **Croxteth & Norris Green (L12).**

If you are the kind of person that can make people smile while visiting them in their home, then a **Home Care Assistant** with Be Caring could be the right fit for you. You do not need a degree or care qualifications to be a **Home Care Assistant,** but you will need the right values. Each day is varied, and you will need to have a can-do attitude.

**Pay: £11.50 p/hr (drivers)**
- Mileage - 40p per mile for drivers / 15p per mile for cyclists
- Bonus schemes: up to £300 new starter, £300 Refer a Friend, £250 annual bonus. £25 birthday gift voucher.

As a **Community Care Worker **for **Be Caring**, your working hours will be aligned to our shift patterns, which include early starts, late evenings and weekend working:

- Full Days: 7am-2pm then 4pm-10pm (2 hour break included)

As a **Home Care Assistant **for **Be Caring**, we will agree your working pattern, setting 2-week rota which includes:

- Alternate full weekends.
- Evenings as agreed within your working hours.

**Benefits**
- Fully funded DBS.
- Paid induction training: 1 week classroom-based (Monday - Friday), 2 days shadowing and additional online modules.
- Training development: funded Level 2 and other accredited courses.
- Holiday pay: annual leave accumulates with working hours and length of service.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): 24-hour helpline, advice and guidance for yourself and dependents.
- Union membership (optional): through our partnership with the GMB.

You may already have many of the skills needed to make an excellent Home Care Assistant** **for **Be Caring**, patience, empathy, and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively are all essential qualities for this role.

As a **Community Care Worker **working within **Croxteth and Norris Green**, you will:

- Provide personal care that protects people's dignity.
- Promote independence using enabling approaches.
- Support people to meet their outcomes, involving families and professionals.
- Connect people to their communities accessing local support and services.
- Deliver personalised care through individual choice and control.
- Be a strong and effective communicator, documenting, reporting, and sharing information with the right people at the right time.

**Induction Training**

We are looking for people with **Be Caring** values to join our team. For this role you do not need care experience, we recognise you will have many transferable skills from previous roles, for example as a shop assistant. We will provide you with the training you need to be an outstanding **Home Care Assistant.**

**As a Home Care Assistant for **Be Caring**, you will be provided with comprehensive induction training on**:

- Be Caring values, going Above & Beyond to meet personal outcomes.
- Dignity and respect, safeguarding and equality and diversity
- Confidentiality and professional boundaries.
- Fluids and nutrition and safe administration of medication.
- Moving and positioning, basic life support, and pressure sores (React to Red)
- Infection prevention and control, health and safety.
- Learning Disabilities (Oliver McGowan Tier 1), mental health and capacity.

**Benefits**:

- Bonus schemes
- Referral programme
- Annual Bonus
- Funded DBS
- Additional leave
- Flexible schedule
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Union membership