Care Assistant

Company Description

Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of non-medical care and companionship services for older people. With minimum visits of one hour, award winning training and an excellent reputation we are immensely proud of the quality of care we provide. We match our Care Professionals to our clients based on mutual interests and hobbies to help build bonds of trust and enables us to provide personalised support.  

Job Description

Part-Time Care Assistant  Job Vacancy in the Burnley area.

It is a pleasure knowing there are people like you that love nothing more than caring for others and brightening someone’s day. After all, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing someone smile and making their lives that bit easier, sometimes by doing the simplest of things.

Who will I support?
You will be carefully matched and introduced to the person you will be supporting, and you will share a great relationship together. Your visits will never be rushed, and they are never less than an hour, meaning you spend quality time with the person we match you with. Because you get to know one another well, the care that you would provide is never awkward, just natural.

As a Care Professional, the Care & Support an individual requires varies greatly, after all everyone is unique! All our clients vary from being very independent, to some that need much more care and support.

Areas we cover:

Burnley Central | Brierfield | Barrowford | Nelson | Colne | Trawden | Padiham 

You will be assisting clients with the following services:

• Personal care, help with washing dressing, bathing
• Home help, cleaning or shopping
• Companionship either within the home or assisting clients to access the community

We are looking to recruit Care Professionals from the Burnley area and have a variety of working patterns available. 

Qualifications

Previous experience or particular qualifications are not required to become a Care Professional with Home Instead, as full training and support are provided. However, it would be useful to have some experience of working in a care setting or interacting with older people. This could be personal experience of caring for a family member or voluntary experience.

To be successful you must:

• Have a passion for supporting others and pride yourself on delivering an outstanding service.
• Be reliable, trustworthy and respectful.
• Enjoy building professional friendships and comfortable in spending time in the company of others.

A valid UK driver’s licence and access to your own vehicle is necessary due to the location in which some of our clients live.

Additional Information

As a Care Professional with Home Instead Burnley, you will receive industry leading training, great rates of pay starting from £11 per hour as well as paid mileage and travel time and we also offer a range of contracts.

If you're looking for work which is extremely rewarding and satisfactory and you have a high-degree of  flexibility to meet our clients' needs, we would love to hear from you. Please click on 'I'm Interested' or alternatively, contact us on 01282 911300.

As a company which promote equality & diversity, we encourage applications from all sectors 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. This role is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure.