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Specialist Home Care Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 19 October 2025
Salary: £12.95 to £14.95 per hour
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 18 November 2025
Location: Crewkerne, South West, TA18 8DT
Company: Care South
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 58220618

Summary

About The Role
Are you an experienced Carer? We offer our Specialist Home Care Assistants: free uniform, free DBS, free Life Assurance, paid three week induction and training period, 40p per mile & pay per shift.
Full and Part time positions available, to include every other weekend working.
Care South, a leading not for profit charity, have exciting opportunities for Specialist Home Care Assistants to join our Somerset Care at Home team, supporting clients with a variety of needs in their own homes in Various locations across Somerset.
This Specialist Home Care Assistants role is a community based, it is essential applicants hold a driving licence and have access to a vehicle.
Benefits for our Specialist Home Care Assistants include:

- £12.95ph weekdays - £14.95ph weekends
- Enhanced rate on Bank Holidays
- 40p per mile mileage allowance, paid fortnightly
- £500 ‘Refer a Friend’ bonus scheme
- Blue Light discount card
- Paid DBS and uniform
- Reward and recognition schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Outstanding training, qualification and career advancement opportunities

Key duties for Specialist Home Care Assistants include (but may not be limited to):

- Providing high-quality support to enable individuals to remain independent
- Supporting our clients to build confidence and return to independent living
- As a valued member of our team, Specialist Care Assistants are key to helping us provide good quality care our clients deserve
- You will be responsible for the needs of clients and ensuring their dignity
- You will help with personal care such as personal hygiene, toileting, and dressing
- Shifts can be early or late between 7 am and 10 pm. Alternative weekend working is also required

Care is at the HEART of everything we do, it’s values that inspire us, not profits.

About you:

- Previous experience in a care setting is required
- Flexible in the hours you can work and ability to work every other weekend
- Strong attention to detail and reporting skills
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- You will hold an enhanced DBS on the update service or prepared to undertake one.

If you would like more details, or a conversation about the role please e-mail vicky.withers@care-south.co.uk or call 07821 301921
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