Job description
Comfort Call
Posted Tue, 14 Feb 2023
Reference
DURHAPPCAST
Location
Durham
Salary
£11.72 - 11.72 per Hour + Mileage
Job type
Permanent
Care Assistant - Durham (England)
Comfort Call
Durham
Job Title: Care Assistant
Locations: Blackhall, Easington, Horden, Peterlee, Seaham, Ferryhill & West Comforth, Newton Aycliffe, Spennymoor, Chester-Le-Street
Pay Rate: £11.72
Mileage: 15p per mile
Shifts available: Range of shifts available
Access to vehicle required: No, May be required in some areas due to the geographical location and nature of the role requires a vehicle
No experience required as specialist training will be provided!
Always Kind, Always Honest, We Listen, We Learn
We’re in it together, working with you to give you the life you want!
Being a Care Assistant is more than just a job it’s a calling. Here at Comfort Call we have an amazing opportunity to join our friendly team. We are looking for kind, honest and compassionate Care Assistants to join the team in providing the very best care to our service users, imagine a role where you are assisting people to remain living in their own homes and more importantly making them smile every day! If you are looking for a role that is both rewarding and fulfilling, then we need you!
Duties will include:
- Personal Care (bathing/showering/toileting/etc)
- Preparing and serving meals/snacks
- Assisting with medication
- Light domestic duties
- Companionship
Benefits:
- Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay
- Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement
- Death in Service Payment
- Pension scheme
- Career progression
- Competitive rates of pay
- Excellent training, ongoing professional development and defined career opportunities once working with us
- LifeWorks Benefits & Wellbeing Platform
- 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
- Free DBS
- Free uniform
Key skills and attributes required:
- Applicants ideally will have experience working in care and/or hold a relevant healthcare qualification to a minimum of level 3 or equivalent.
- Caring, compassionate and a good listener
- An energetic, happy person who enjoys forming relationships with people
- Able to access a vehicle
- Enhanced DBS
‘APPLY TODAY’ to ‘Be one of the people that make a difference!’