Care Worker Southampton City Southampton, England
Job description
Home Instead Southampton are a great company to work for - we make sure that our staff get the time to build a lovely relationship with our clients. As the leading provider of relationship led care, we take care to match Caregivers to clients, and highest quality of care to help our clients continue to live safe, well, and independently at home. It means having time to chat too.
- Visits to our clients are no less than 1 hour – so you have the time needed with client
- Excellent rate of pay £12.70 & £13.70 per hour (double on Bank Holidays £27.20)
- Mileage paid at 30p - 45p/mile.
- Tailored client schedule for efficiency and minimal travel time wherever possible = less travel hassle.
- Paid Training - award winning training and ongoing support, with genuine career development opportunities
- Employee assistance programme - available 24/7 Your well-being is important Home Instead – you will have free, confidential access to counselling (not limited to work-related) and legal advice.
- Genuine appreciation and recognition of the important work that you will undertake as a Care Professional with Home Instead.
Home Instead knows that you are not “just a carer” and we value what you do.
If you’re looking for a profession where you can bring your caring personality to work and change lives, look no further.
We are looking for Care Professionals that recognise the importance of the work that they do. We need good communicators and problem solvers with a professional approach to the important work that they do. We need people that can’t help but CARE. “Just a carer?” No such thing!
You need to be available to work alternate weekends. You will need to have access to reliable transportation insured with Class A Business insurance in your name.
We are a person centred care company covering most of the Southampton postcode area. However, we pride ourselves on keeping our Care assistants close to home, and on keeping our clients’ care teams as small and consistent as possible. This ensures they receive the continuity they crave.
We devote at least an hour to every client we visit, which means that rather than rushing to get tasks done, we can spend meaningful time with our clients that really makes their day!
You will receive excellent support and award-winning training, so no experience is necessary, but equally if you do have experience we would also love to meet you too!
What is essential is, that you are kind, caring, compassionate and really want to make a difference to someone’s life.
You will receive excellent support and award-winning training, so no experience is necessary, but equally if you do have experience we would also love to meet you too!
Additional Information
We ask you have a means of transport as clients are predominantly cared for in there own homes, or would like you to accompany them on appointments or outings
Care Professional Benefits!
- Pension, plus holiday pay
- Employee referral scheme of £200
- Non-Uniform for a friendly and professional service
- Paid introduction/shadowing calls - you will shadow an existing care professional so you get to know the Clients
- Average hour (or guaranteed hours) contracts available
- Employee benefits portal - with discounts at over 200 outlets!
- Wellbeing - free of charge access to an independent and confidential Employee Assistance Programme. This gives Colleagues and their family access to 24/7 365 support for a whole range of issues including physical, mental, and financial issues
- Friendly and supportive management and office team.
- Employee assistance program for your health and welfare
- £400 paid towards your NVQ Diploma (optional)
- £75 paid towards your VRQ's bonus (optional)
- Blue Light Discount card eligibility
- Opportunities for Career progression
If you're looking for work which is extremely rewarding and satisfactory we would love to hear from you. Please click ‘Apply now’ or alternatively call the office for an informal chat on 01489 559007.
We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Instead Senior Care 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.
