Specialist Home Care Assistant - Maternity Cover
Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
Specialist Home Care Assistant (Maternity Cover)
Location: Bournemouth
Pay rate: £13.70 per hour + £2.00 per hour Bank Holiday enhancement rate
Travel: Paid Travel Time £12. 71 per hour + 40p per mile mileage allowance
Hours: Full-time - Days off to include every Thursday and every other weekend
Shift pattern: 07:00 to 14:00 & 16:00 to 22:00
Care South, a leading not for profit charity, have exciting opportunities for a Specialist Home Care Assistant to join our Bournemouth Care at Home team.
The Specialist Home Care Assistant plays a vital role to motivate and encourage clients’ with a diverse range of social needs and medical conditions in their home, to support with improving their independence.
This role is a mix of community and office based work, it is essential applicants hold a driving licence and have access to a vehicle.
As a Specialist Home Care Assistant with Care South, we ensure you are paid for not just your contact time but also your travel time. On top of this we pay a generous milage rate of 40p per mile.
Rewards And Benefits
A career in care means constantly improving the quality of people’s lives and offers a stimulating and incredibly rewarding career. As a not-for-profit charity, we focus on the reward and recognition of all our amazing people within the Care South Team.
About you:
If you’re kind, caring, and ready to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and become part of something truly special with Care South at Home Bournemouth.
PEOPLE | PASSION | PURPOSE
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PEOPLE | PASSION | PURPOSE
Care South are one of the top 20 rated Care Home Groups in the UK based on published reviews from residents and their family and friends at carehome.co.uk.
As a not-for-profit charity, our HEART values are key to us providing outstanding care. For more information about us, our values and benefits, please visit our website: http://www.care-south.co.uk/about-us.
For any questions please contact the recruitment team on 01202 712448.
Location: Bournemouth
Pay rate: £13.70 per hour + £2.00 per hour Bank Holiday enhancement rate
Travel: Paid Travel Time £12. 71 per hour + 40p per mile mileage allowance
Hours: Full-time - Days off to include every Thursday and every other weekend
Shift pattern: 07:00 to 14:00 & 16:00 to 22:00
Care South, a leading not for profit charity, have exciting opportunities for a Specialist Home Care Assistant to join our Bournemouth Care at Home team.
The Specialist Home Care Assistant plays a vital role to motivate and encourage clients’ with a diverse range of social needs and medical conditions in their home, to support with improving their independence.
This role is a mix of community and office based work, it is essential applicants hold a driving licence and have access to a vehicle.
As a Specialist Home Care Assistant with Care South, we ensure you are paid for not just your contact time but also your travel time. On top of this we pay a generous milage rate of 40p per mile.
Rewards And Benefits
A career in care means constantly improving the quality of people’s lives and offers a stimulating and incredibly rewarding career. As a not-for-profit charity, we focus on the reward and recognition of all our amazing people within the Care South Team.
- Paid travel time.
- Enhanced rate on Bank Holidays.
- 40p per mile mileage allowance, paid fortnightly.
- Online/retail discounts.
- Paid induction and training.
- Employee referral bonus scheme.
- Free DBS check.
- Contributory pension scheme.
- Life insurance.
- Staff association.
- Onsite learning and development team.
- Career progression.
- Competitive pay rates.
- Flexible working hours.
- Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes.
- Completing quality needs assessments, produce relevant documentation, and complete weekly review of outcomes.
- Assessing clients tailored reablement plans and risk assessments. Reviewing and updating these on a daily and weekly basis.
- Assist with signposting clients to services which will ensure their continued independence after the reablement programme service has ceased.
- Supporting clients with personal care tasks such as washing, dressing, bathing, shaving, hair washing and oral hygiene and to undertake these tasks themselves where appropriate to maintain their independence.
- Supporting clients with daily living tasks such as domestic cleaning and shopping.
- Assisting clients with meal planning, preparation and cooking.
- Ongoing training and development.
- Support from a friendly, experienced team and colleagues.
- You will delivering person-centred care that truly makes a difference.
- Providing high-quality support to enable individuals to remain independent.
- You will Support our clients to build confidence and remain independent.
- As a valued member of our team, Home Care Assistants are key to helping us provide good quality care our clients deserve.
- You will be responsible for the needs of clients and ensuring their dignity.
- You will help with personal care such as personal hygiene, toileting, and dressing.
About you:
- Previous experience in a care setting is desirable but not required.
- You will have a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
- Flexible in the hours you can work and ability to work every other weekend.
- Strong attention to detail and reporting skills.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- You will hold an enhanced DBS on the update service or prepared to undertake one.
- You must be 18 years or older.
- We are unable to offer Visa Sponsorship.
If you’re kind, caring, and ready to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and become part of something truly special with Care South at Home Bournemouth.
PEOPLE | PASSION | PURPOSE
,
PEOPLE | PASSION | PURPOSE
Care South are one of the top 20 rated Care Home Groups in the UK based on published reviews from residents and their family and friends at carehome.co.uk.
As a not-for-profit charity, our HEART values are key to us providing outstanding care. For more information about us, our values and benefits, please visit our website: http://www.care-south.co.uk/about-us.
For any questions please contact the recruitment team on 01202 712448.
