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Domiciliary Care Assistant
| Posting date: | 16 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2025 |
| Location: | Taunton, Mid Devon, Sedgemoor, West Somerset |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Bluebird Care Taunton, Mid Devon, Sedgemoor & West Somerset |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Casual hour contract, full time, part time, set availability over a 2 week period with weekend availability
We’re committed to keeping people in the comfort of their own home, so we help with anything from everyday tasks around our customers’ homes through to complex care needs. We appreciate that every customer is different, and this is why every day will be different.
Roles and Responsibilities as a Care Assistant
Providing personal care duties
Administering medication
Manual handling, using equipment where required
Promoting customer health and well-being, enabling them to live their life to the full
Your Experience and Suitability for the Care Assistant Role
It’s isn’t about previous experience. We want to ensure our customer receives the very best care and to do that we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.
But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.
You must have:
Full and valid UK driving licence
Access to a car
Right to work in the UK
Excellent level of English
Because We Care About You
We understand that every member of our team has their own family to care for and this is why our role offers the flexibility to work around your own home life. You can choose between full-time or part-time work; all you have to do is simply tell us your availability. Although we try to be flexible where we can, we do require you to be flexible with us too, that’s why we will require you to work between hours of 7am - 3pm or 2pm - 10pm.
We can’t care for our customers if we don’t take care of our team so to make this possible, we offer:
An excellent rate of £14.00 per hour
35p mileage allowance + NMW for travel time
28 days holiday pro rata
Full training induction and a 12-week mentor
Ongoing training and support
Flexible working
Pension scheme
Smartphone technology so you can do everything at the tap of a finger
Free uniform
But not only that, we take care of our team throughout the year, whether it's your birthday, Christmas, awards or simply because it’s a Thursday. We’re a family and we’re here to look after you today, tomorrow and every other day after that.
We’re committed to keeping people in the comfort of their own home, so we help with anything from everyday tasks around our customers’ homes through to complex care needs. We appreciate that every customer is different, and this is why every day will be different.
Roles and Responsibilities as a Care Assistant
Providing personal care duties
Administering medication
Manual handling, using equipment where required
Promoting customer health and well-being, enabling them to live their life to the full
Your Experience and Suitability for the Care Assistant Role
It’s isn’t about previous experience. We want to ensure our customer receives the very best care and to do that we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.
But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.
You must have:
Full and valid UK driving licence
Access to a car
Right to work in the UK
Excellent level of English
Because We Care About You
We understand that every member of our team has their own family to care for and this is why our role offers the flexibility to work around your own home life. You can choose between full-time or part-time work; all you have to do is simply tell us your availability. Although we try to be flexible where we can, we do require you to be flexible with us too, that’s why we will require you to work between hours of 7am - 3pm or 2pm - 10pm.
We can’t care for our customers if we don’t take care of our team so to make this possible, we offer:
An excellent rate of £14.00 per hour
35p mileage allowance + NMW for travel time
28 days holiday pro rata
Full training induction and a 12-week mentor
Ongoing training and support
Flexible working
Pension scheme
Smartphone technology so you can do everything at the tap of a finger
Free uniform
But not only that, we take care of our team throughout the year, whether it's your birthday, Christmas, awards or simply because it’s a Thursday. We’re a family and we’re here to look after you today, tomorrow and every other day after that.
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