Company Description
Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of domiciliary home care services for senior adults. With minimum visits of one hour, award winning training and an excellent reputation, we are immensely proud of the quality of care we provide. At Home Instead Aylesbury Vale and North East Oxfordshire, we match our Care Professionals to our clients based on mutual interests and hobbies to help build bonds of trust and provide personalised support. Each day and client is different, but the core services you will be offering focus around personal care, home help, and companionship.
At Home Instead we are committed to changing the face of aging by providing the best possible care to our clients. We are a firm believer that just because we get older, it should not mean we are limited in what we can do. The high quality care which our team provide is vital to helping us achieve this aim, and improving the lives of the clients we support.
Job Description
A Care Assistant with Home Instead is someone who has a kind and compassionate heart, and wants to make a true difference to the quality of life for seniors. Our Care Assistants provide support that is completely personalised to the individual based on a close bond being formed through shared experiences and interests. You will enjoy building professional and respectful friendships and be comfortable spending time in the company of others with the ability to adapt in order to meet client’s needs.
As a full-time Care Assistant you will have guaranteed contracted hours. As part of this, it is required that you will be flexible in regard to your hours of work, and you are available to work alternative weekends as well as a minimum of two evening's per week.
Your tasks as a Care Assistant will be based around the following:
- Providing personal care
- Prompting medication
- Assisting with daily living
- Home help tasks
- Being a friendly companion to our clients
- Preparing meals and monitoring clients diets
- Assisting to appointments
- Ensuring that clients can remain independent in their own homes
Qualifications
You do not need any particular experience or qualifications to become a Care Assistant. However, it would be beneficial to have some experience interacting with older people.
A driving license and access to your own vehicle which can be used for work purposes is required for this role where you will be based in the community, providing care for clients in their own homes.
As a Care Assistant, you will receive industry leading training, great rates of pay and excellent support.
Additional Information
What Do We Offer?
- Guaranteed hours built around your availability
- Optional overtime opportunities
- Competitive rates of pay starting at £12.25
- Mileage payment of 45p per mile
- Minimum of an hour visit per client
- Travel time between clients with flexibility depending on the distance of travel
- Paid annual leave
- Employee health assured program
- Pension auto-enrollment
- Higher rates of pay for bank holidays
- Staff Benefits including a range of high street stores, holidays, etc.
- A constant support network through an on-call phone system
- Induction and in-detail training supported by online learning development opportunities
- Opportunities to progress into a senior role
If you would like to learn more about the role please contact Matt on 01296 410029.
We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
