Home Care Worker
| Posting date: | 21 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £12.30 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Benefits: · Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day are paid at £20 per hour. · We pay our training, waiting time and travel time at the rate of 18p per minute in line with the living wage. · Home Care Workers will be reimbursed for petrol (at 25p per mile) or other reasonable travelling expenses incurred as a result of travelling on authorised company business. · Travel time from client to client is also paid at a rate of 18p per minute which equates to £10.80 per hour. Both mileage and travel time are calculated automatically using the CarePlanner software that Kind Hearts Care & Support Ltd use as a rostering system. · Annual leave entitlement is 5.6 times your usual working week (this figure can include bank and public holidays). · Ongoing training will be provided and supplementary courses will be tailored to the needs of your clients and you as a carer. |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 June 2024 |
| Location: | Lichfield, Staffordshire |
| Remote working: | Fully remote |
| Company: | Kind Hearts Care & Support Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
CAN YOU HELP YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY? Do YOU have a few hours to spare each week to help someone near you in their own home? We are looking for local people to help care for neighbours in our community. This is a paid role but we are very flexible.
About Us:
Kind Hearts Care & Support is a small, local domiciliary care agency in the Lichfield area. We provide care to people in their own homes. We have fully flexible vacancies open from as little as 2-4 hours per week up to 20. We also have options available for weekend only work or evening work depending on your availability.
Purpose:
To be part of a team of staff to meet the personal care and practical needs of clients in a way that respects the dignity of the individual, whilst promoting their independence. This role will include all care that the client would reasonably expect from members of their own family but will not include any tasks of nursing care.
Principle responsibilities
· Assistance with personal care needs such as bathing, dressing, and toileting
· Assistance or administration of medication
· To provide companionship and accompany clients to appointment or on outings such as shopping trips or day trips.
· Meal preparation
· Housework and laundry duties
Home Support Workers should possess the following attributes:
Essential characteristics:
· Reliability
· Trustworthiness
· Comfortable working with older people
· Good communicator
· Willingness to travel- must be a driver and have own car
Desirable characteristics:
· Working in care sector
· QCF2 in Health & Social Care (achieved/working towards)
DBS/POVA checks
It is a requirement of employment that you should have a satisfactory Enhanced DBS Disclosure and a POVA check. This will be paid for by Kind Hearts Care & Support Ltd, however, if you leave the company within 3 months of the contract starting date the full cost of the disclosure (£52.20) must be repaid. Future DBS checks are to be paid for by the Home Care Worker.
About Us:
Kind Hearts Care & Support is a small, local domiciliary care agency in the Lichfield area. We provide care to people in their own homes. We have fully flexible vacancies open from as little as 2-4 hours per week up to 20. We also have options available for weekend only work or evening work depending on your availability.
Purpose:
To be part of a team of staff to meet the personal care and practical needs of clients in a way that respects the dignity of the individual, whilst promoting their independence. This role will include all care that the client would reasonably expect from members of their own family but will not include any tasks of nursing care.
Principle responsibilities
· Assistance with personal care needs such as bathing, dressing, and toileting
· Assistance or administration of medication
· To provide companionship and accompany clients to appointment or on outings such as shopping trips or day trips.
· Meal preparation
· Housework and laundry duties
Home Support Workers should possess the following attributes:
Essential characteristics:
· Reliability
· Trustworthiness
· Comfortable working with older people
· Good communicator
· Willingness to travel- must be a driver and have own car
Desirable characteristics:
· Working in care sector
· QCF2 in Health & Social Care (achieved/working towards)
DBS/POVA checks
It is a requirement of employment that you should have a satisfactory Enhanced DBS Disclosure and a POVA check. This will be paid for by Kind Hearts Care & Support Ltd, however, if you leave the company within 3 months of the contract starting date the full cost of the disclosure (£52.20) must be repaid. Future DBS checks are to be paid for by the Home Care Worker.