Community Care Assistant – Weekends
Sleaford
£14.00 per hour with weekly pay
Drivers are essential, however, no experience in care is required – do you have a naturally caring personality? are you passionate about helping others? We are happy to provide full training and support to give you the best possible start for your career in care.
About Prestige Nursing & Care Sleaford
The team in branch are all long serving and have a vast knowledge of the area and our client base. Our goal is to provide the best quality of care possible, and to embrace each carer and client into the Prestige family, working together to achieve our goals and values, and to make a difference to each other and the clients and families we support.
What our clients are looking for
Our clients have a variety of needs, they are all looking for someone to visit with a positive can-do attitude, to put them at ease and make their time spent with you enjoyable, our clients deserve to start each day in the best way with positivity and a smile.
Your role will include
This can include support with personal care and dressing, medication and meal preparation, many of our clients enjoy companionship calls, this can be a visit to the local garden centres or out for a browse around the shops, and much more.
What we offer:
1. A variety of shifts to suit your lifestyle.
2. You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts.
3. Work with our own clients, no agency work.
4. Pension scheme
5. Blue light card
6. Free DBS check
7. Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
8. Continued professional development to support you & your career
9. Weekly Pay
10. Holiday Pay
11. Refer a friend with the Care Friends mobile app and earn extra money – T&C’s apply
12. Employee Assistance line – available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
13. Support from your local branch team and out of hours support.
We’re looking for:
14. Excellent communication skills
15. A driver’s licence and use of own vehicle is required
16. Good professional and personal references
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.
You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC.
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.
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.