Adhoc Community Care Assistant
Part time hours across Derby inc. Spondon, Borrowash, Chaddesden, Alvaston, Aston-on-Trent – From 0700-1800
£12 – £18 per hour (including bank holidays)
At the request of our clients, we require females only for this role.
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?
We are recruiting an experienced home care assistant to support our service users across the Derby area. Some of our client’s require short visits (no less than 1hr1hr), whilst other require extended shifts to meet a multitude of needs (up to 12 hours). We work to support a diverse range of diagnoses; Dementia, Motor Neurone Disease, Acquired Spinal Injury, Parkinson’s and Challenging Behaviour. Each client has a detailed care plan written with them to ensure that all care staff conduct visits to their specified requirements and within legislation
How will you be helping?
1. Medication management and administration
2. Help around the house
3. Personal care
4. Continence care
5. Meal preparation
6. General emotional support
What we offer:
7. A variety of shifts to suit your lifestyle
8. You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts.
9. Work with our own clients, no agency work.
10. Pension scheme
11. Blue light card
12. Free DBS check
13. Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
14. Continued professional development to support you & your career
15. Weekly Pay
16. Holiday Pay
17. Refer a friend with the Care Friends mobile app and earn extra money – T&C’s apply
18. Employee Assistance line – available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
19. Support from your local branch team and out of hours support.
We’re looking for:
20. Three months’ paid experience in care
21. Excellent communication skills
22. A full UK driver’s licence is a requirement and your own vehicle
23. Good professional and personal references
Want to find out how you can make life better for yourself and the people you care for?
Contact Claire Henchcliffe at Tel:07919026662
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.
You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC.
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.