Home Care Assistant - ref. k71405803
Compassionate caring and reliable people required to join the Reading & Wokingham District's most highly recommended Home Care company - providing high quality care and support to the elderly in their own homes.
Looking for a part-time role from 10 hours/week including mornings, daytime, evenings and weekends? If so, we'd love to hear from you! Its a great way to earn whilst making a real difference to the lives of others, and gain huge satisfaction.
- starting from £13.15/hr week days until 7pm.
- starting from £15.15/hr evenings and weekends.
- from £19.37/hr bank holidays and £26.30/hr Christmas and NewYear Bank Holidays
- 35p per mile mileage.
- 28 days annual leave, pro-rata.
- Company pension scheme.
- Hours per week: 10 + hours per week.
- Visiting clients in the Wokingham, Twyford, Woodley, Earley, Caversham/Reading, Shinfield and Winnersh areas mainly
Day shifts start at around 7:30 am generally, though we can be flexible, and evenings are generally 4 - 10pm, but please get in touch to let you know what you're looking for. We ask all our carers to work every other weekend too.
About us:
Right at Home Reading and Wokingham is a friendly, local homecare provider which recognises that its employees are its greatest asset. Awarded 5* Employer awards for the past 6 years (by independent research firm WorkBuzz) and we're rated 'Outstanding' for caring by the CQC.Consistently rated 9.9 or 10/10 on homecare.co.uk since we started in 2018, in our annual anonymous client satisfaction survey, for the last 6 years, 100% of our Reading & Wokingham District clients have said they would recommend us to others.
Want to join the most highly recommended homecare team in the area?
What we offer our Care Assistants / CareGivers:
- Flexible shifts close to home.
- Hours to suit you.
- Access to high-quality training and ongoing support to make sure you are comfortable and confident in your role.
- Career progression opportunities and room to grow.
- An employer that really listens, values, and appreciates everything you do.
- A role that offers something different every day and plenty of job satisfaction.
- The opportunity to be part of a ‘family feel’, supportive team of Care Assistants
Duties include:
- Motivating Clients to get the most out of their day
- Personal care
- Administering medication
- Assisting Clients with washing and dressing.
- Shopping, housekeeping, meal preparation.
- Taking Clients for appointments or outings.
- Requirements of the role:
- hold a full and valid UK or EU/EEA driving license AND have access to own vehicle.
- Be willing to work at least alternate weekends
- Have a genuine passion to want to help others.
- Be a reliable team player with a positive attitude.
Live close to Woodley and/or Wokingham, as role will include visiting clients in their homes in Caversham, Wokingham, Twyford, Woodley, Earley and Winnersh areas...
Your background experience:
If you have experience as a Care Assistant, Support Worker, Carer, Health Care Assistant or in the NHS we would love to hear from you. However, if you do not have experience, we provide full training and encourage candidates from all sectors to apply, for example: Retail Sales Assistant, Customer Service, Hairdresser/Beautician, Receptionist, Administrator, House Keeper, Cleaner.
Apply now!
This could be the start of your new career, with our full support and outstanding training, anything is possible if you put your head and heart into it.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, PermanentPart-time hours: starting from 10 to 30 hours per week
Salary: £13.15 - £19.37 per hour PLUS holiday pay and generous Pension etc
Benefits:
- Smart but Casual dress (no Uniforms)
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
- Wellness programme