Community Care Assistant

Job title: Community Care Assistant

Home Instead Aylesbury are now offering sponsorship swaps. Please apply for this position via the link below: https://www.homeinstead.co.uk/recruitment/aylesbury-oxfordshire/ During your application, please mention that you require sponsorship. Are you on sponsorship with a Domiciliary Care Agency, but not getting the required hours? If so we would love to hear from you!

As a full-time Care Professional, you will have guaranteed contracted hours. As part of this, it is required that you be flexible in regard to your hours of work, and you are available to work weekends as well as evenings.

Your tasks as a Care Assistant will be based around the following:

• Providing personal care
• Administering medication
• Assisting with daily living
• Home help tasks
• Being a friendly companion to our clients
• Preparing meals and monitoring client’s diets
• Assisting to appointments
• Ensuring that clients can remain independent in their own homes

A Care Assistant with Home Instead is someone who has a kind and compassionate heart, and wants to make a true difference to the quality of life for seniors. Our Care Assistants provide support that is completely personalised to the individual based on a close bond being formed through shared experiences and interests. You will enjoy building professional and respectful friendships and be comfortable spending time in the company of others with the ability to adapt in order to meet client’s needs.

Qualifications

• We are looking for someone who has at least one year of care experience in the past, be this in a the domiciliary field, a care home, or a hospital setting.

• To be considered for this role, you will need to already be in the UK and on Sponsorship. You will also be required to have a drivers license and access to your own vehicle.

• An ideal candidate will have good people skills and be a warm and empathetic person, with a genuine passion for improving the lives of others around them.

• It would also be beneficial if you are currently located in Aylesbury or the surrounding area.

• Additional Information

An ideal applicant for this role will be:

• Results driven

• Adaptable to change

• People orientated

• Customer focused

• Comfortable with influencing change

• A team player and confident in collaborating with others

• A good communicator & proficient in relationship management

• An advocate for our brand values

• An agile learner

• Hard working

• The Benefits

• Auto-enrolled company pension

• Opportunities for training and development

• Become part of a growing organisation

• Work for one of the UK’s leading home care providers

• Paid mileage when travelling between clients

• Minimum of an hour spent with each client