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Home care Assistant (£19 per hour, 8 hours per week)
| Posting date: | 31 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £19 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 August 2024 |
| Location: | Henfield, West Sussex |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Happiest at Home |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Henfield |
Summary
To apply for this position, you must be a FEMALE, drive and have access to your own car.
Happiest at Home provides dedicated, personal home care assistance to clients, to enable them to have an excellent quality of life in their own home. You will be seeing the same client every week.
The Client
The client is a lovely older lady with who loves a good chat, but her family have noticed that she is struggling to get by with little day to day bits. She lives alone in her gorgeous cottage and has a cat, dog and pony.
She trained on horses for most of her life and was a very outdoorsy lady and now enjoys singing groups, local community groups and watching tv. She has two sons, who are very involved and visit mum as much as they can.
She is relatively independent and enjoys her own company but needs support with meal prep, cooking, food shops and care for her animals as they are her pride and joy!
The schedule for this position is:
Saturdays and Sundays: 9am-11am and 7pm-9pm
Total 8 hrs per week
Our lovely team of ‘CAREPals’ as we like to call them, are hand-selected Support Assistants who ensure that our service is delivered in an exceptional way. As a CAREPal you must be a dedicated professional who is friendly, presentable, reliable, punctual, caring and hard-working.
Much more than a friendly face – We Are Happiest at Home
As a dedicated CAREPal you will visit clients to offer support and friendship. You will be their friendly face and companion to support clients with daily activities to enhance their life and well-being. CAREPal very often become trusted friends with their clients, someone that they can easily chat to, discuss things and share things with, both at home and when out and about.
Here is an example of the services our CAREPal's offer their clients;
Companionship – sharing conversation and spending time together
Helping with mobility
Overseeing medication – prompting client to take their own medication
Household chores – help around the home, such as vacuuming and washing clothes
Preparing and serving home-made meals
Running errands – assisting with tasks such as shopping or picking up prescriptions
Personal Care - showering, cleaning and assisting with toileting
Accessing the local community - accompanying your client to go shopping, attend events or even pop out for some lunch
We want you to be Happy too
We also want you to be happy, as we feel this can really enhance the quality of care for our clients, and satisfaction for our carers.
Here are some of the benefits of working for Happiest at Home;
Set hours per week - you will work the same hours each week
Flexibility - You and your client will manage the care package together
High pay rate - we pay our carers one of the highest rates in the country
1:1 support - you will be the dedicated carer for your client during your visits
Building relationships - we want you to have something in common with your client
Ongoing support from the office - we want you to have enough support to care to the best of your ability
Smart-Casual dress code - We don't have a formal uniform
It takes a special kind of person to be a carer. A good carer is someone who truly cares about others and is not just earning a living. This is a special job, and it needs special people to do it.
Happiest at Home provides dedicated, personal home care assistance to clients, to enable them to have an excellent quality of life in their own home. You will be seeing the same client every week.
The Client
The client is a lovely older lady with who loves a good chat, but her family have noticed that she is struggling to get by with little day to day bits. She lives alone in her gorgeous cottage and has a cat, dog and pony.
She trained on horses for most of her life and was a very outdoorsy lady and now enjoys singing groups, local community groups and watching tv. She has two sons, who are very involved and visit mum as much as they can.
She is relatively independent and enjoys her own company but needs support with meal prep, cooking, food shops and care for her animals as they are her pride and joy!
The schedule for this position is:
Saturdays and Sundays: 9am-11am and 7pm-9pm
Total 8 hrs per week
Our lovely team of ‘CAREPals’ as we like to call them, are hand-selected Support Assistants who ensure that our service is delivered in an exceptional way. As a CAREPal you must be a dedicated professional who is friendly, presentable, reliable, punctual, caring and hard-working.
Much more than a friendly face – We Are Happiest at Home
As a dedicated CAREPal you will visit clients to offer support and friendship. You will be their friendly face and companion to support clients with daily activities to enhance their life and well-being. CAREPal very often become trusted friends with their clients, someone that they can easily chat to, discuss things and share things with, both at home and when out and about.
Here is an example of the services our CAREPal's offer their clients;
Companionship – sharing conversation and spending time together
Helping with mobility
Overseeing medication – prompting client to take their own medication
Household chores – help around the home, such as vacuuming and washing clothes
Preparing and serving home-made meals
Running errands – assisting with tasks such as shopping or picking up prescriptions
Personal Care - showering, cleaning and assisting with toileting
Accessing the local community - accompanying your client to go shopping, attend events or even pop out for some lunch
We want you to be Happy too
We also want you to be happy, as we feel this can really enhance the quality of care for our clients, and satisfaction for our carers.
Here are some of the benefits of working for Happiest at Home;
Set hours per week - you will work the same hours each week
Flexibility - You and your client will manage the care package together
High pay rate - we pay our carers one of the highest rates in the country
1:1 support - you will be the dedicated carer for your client during your visits
Building relationships - we want you to have something in common with your client
Ongoing support from the office - we want you to have enough support to care to the best of your ability
Smart-Casual dress code - We don't have a formal uniform
It takes a special kind of person to be a carer. A good carer is someone who truly cares about others and is not just earning a living. This is a special job, and it needs special people to do it.