If you don’t read this, you could miss an amazing opportunity to join our award winning team.
Your Experience and Suitability for the Care Assistant Role
It’s isn’t about previous experience at all. We want to ensure our customers receive the very best care and to do that we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.
But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.
You must have:
* Full and valid UK driving licence or ability to use the Eskuta
* Right to work in the UK
* Excellent level of English
* Access to a car or the Eskuta
Do you want to be part of a Top 20 Provider where quality of delivery is our focus?
We are a franchise of the UK's largest Domiciliary Care provider that started as a small family business in 2004.
Bluebird Care Rochdale is owned by local couple John and Beryl Keogh, who want to make a real difference to the community where they live. We started in 2018 and have made a huge difference to the people we support in that time. John spent 26 years serving his country and both now take immense pride in serving the community where they live.
But what makes us different?
We champion good causes. Bluebird Care Rochdale support Springhill Hospice and are proud sponsors of good causes too, from Youth, Ladies and Military Veterans football to Mental Health and homeless charities. But that is not our day job.
We’re committed to keeping people in the comfort of their own home, so we help with anything from everyday tasks around our customers’ homes through to complex care needs. We appreciate that every customer is different, and this is why every day will be different.
Roles and Responsibilities as a Care Assistant
* Administering medication
* Providing personal care duties
* Manual handling, using equipment if required
* Domestic support within the customers own home
* Promoting customer health, well-being & enabling them to live their life to the full
Because We Care About You
We understand that every member of our team has their own family to care for and this is why our role offers the flexibility to work around your own home life. You can choose between full-time or part-time work; all you have to do is simply tell us your availability. Although we try to be flexible where we can, we do require you to be flexible with us too, that’s why we will require you to work where the demand is.
We can’t care for our customers if we don’t take care of our team so to make this possible, we offer:
* Excellent rate of £12.50 ph increasing to time and a half on Bank or Public Holidays
* Smartphone technology so you can do everything at the tap of a finger
* Vocational Training to encourage career advancement
* Full training induction and a 12-week probation
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Ongoing training and support
* 28 days holiday pro rata
* 40p mileage allowance
* Pension scheme
* Flexible working
* Free uniform
But not only that, we take care of our team throughout the year, whether it's your birthday, Christmas, awards or simply because it’s a Thursday. We’re a family and we’re here to look after you today, tomorrow and every other day after that.