Home Care Assistant - Worthing area
£13.13 weekdays £13.64 after 7pm
Weekends £15.66
16 or 30 hour contracts available (terms and conditions discussed at interview stage) OR you can have the flexibility of a zero hour contract… what would be most suited for you?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team, with natural progression in the care industry. We welcome applicants with no prior care experience and will provide additional training and support to ensure you are confident and comfortable in your new role. This is a highly rewarding role, we are seeking those who are compassionate, reliable and someone who can make a real difference.
Your role
Your role will be to deliver a high quality of care to our clients in their own home, this may include medication management (assisting and administrating), personal care and hygiene, helping with duties around the house, and being an emotional support.
Life at Prestige
People are at the very heart of Prestige, and we want to make life better for them. As a Care Assistant, you'll join us in our continued efforts to make life better for our clients.
Prestige Nursing & Care has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 30 local offices in England and Scotland. We look after a variety of clients in their own homes and we also work with local care homes, nursing homes and the NHS.
Who will you be helping to make life better for?
Prestige Nursing & Care Redhill are seeking dedicated and passionate Home Care Assistants to join our care and support team. You will work delivering person centred, specialised care to your clients in their own homes on a one-to-one basis. This will enable you to maintain a clinical and supportive overview of your client.
We are looking for Home Care Assistants who can build positive relationships with a range of clients and their families as we understand the importance that we play in their lives.
How will you be helping our clients?
- Medication management and administration
- Help around the house.
- Meal preparation
- Personal care
- General emotional support
What we offer:
- £13.13-£15.66 (contact time)
- £19.70 public holidays
- A variety of shifts to suit your lifestyle
- You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts.
- Work with our own clients, no agency work.
- Pension scheme
- Blue light card
- Free DBS check
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
- Continued professional development to support you & your career
- Weekly Pay
- Holiday Pay
- Refer a friend with the Care Friends mobile app and earn extra money - T&C's apply
- Employee Assistance line - available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
- Support from your local branch team and out of hours support.
We're looking for:
- 3 months' paid experience in care, not essential
- Excellent communication skills
- A driver's licence & own car is essential.
- Good professional and personal references
In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced DBS/PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines. All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting Equal Opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.
As a Company we are unable to provide Sponsorship for overseas candidates. Applicants must have proof of right to work in the UK. It is a requirement to provide an overseas police check dated within the last 3 months of being in the UK if you have lived outside of the UK for longer than a year in the last 5 years.
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Prestige Nursing & Care reserve the right to close this role early
