Home Carer - West Carmarthenshire

If part time and/or term time, the full time salary quoted (based on 37hrs) will be pro-rata'd accordingly

Hourly Rate : £14.78 - £16.54

Contract Hours 3 x 31hrs 30min and 1 x 26hrs 15min

Grade E + 8% - £28,515 - £31,903 - £14.78 - £16.54 per hour (includes evening and weekend working)

"Kindness Doesn’t Need Experience — Just Heart. Join Us in Making Every Day Brighter."

This is an opportunity for you to make a real difference, where your support will enable people with care needs (mainly but not exclusively elderly) to live in their own home when it has become too difficult for them to manage alone.

No experience? No problem!

If you’re kind, calm and communicate well with others, bring a positive attitude to work, and want to make things better for people in need of care then we can offer you all the training and support you need to fulfil the role.

Being a Home Carer is the most rewarding job where you will gain invaluable skills and experience. We also have lots of training and development opportunities. So, whether you want to be a Home Carer as a long-term career, want to gain experience and important skills before embarking on a different career or higher education, then we want to hear from you.

You will have extensive training and support to gain the skills and confidence needed to be a great carer. Its hard work but rewarding and you will be part of a big organisation with opportunities to progress. You will be welcomed into a Carmarthenshire County Council Home Care Team that wear their uniforms with pride, supporting some of our most vulnerable residents in local communities.

To read what others have said about us follow the link to the latest inspection reportcareinspectorate.wales.

Being a home carer, your duties will include providing personal care (e.g. helping people to bath, wash, dress, use the toilet), meal preparation, giving medication and helping service users with rehabilitation to help them regain their independence.

Home Care workers are required to register with Social Care Wales. We will give you all the support and help you need to become a registered social care worker Registration | Social Care Wales.

Our rates of pay are highly competitive with similar posts across the Health and Social Care sector.

Not only is the hourly rate for guaranteed contracted hours amongst the best paying in Wales we are also able to offer a range of other benefits such as pay to travel between calls plus 45p per mile for personal car costs, use of pool cars, access to reward schemes, a highly rated pension scheme, generous paid holiday entitlement, maternity & paternity allowances and much more.

Uniforms, bags, personal protective equipment (PPE), and mobile phones are provided to all of our home carers to access their rosters and information about what’s happening in the service and the wider county council, including staff discount schemes.

For an informal discussion please contact:

• Emma Neal –
• Eleri Gealy –

An Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be requested for this job. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children or adults at risk

Level 2 - You will need a basic level of conversational Welsh. Reasonable support can be provided on appointment to reach this level.

Closing Date: 13/09/2026, 23:55

We’re proud to offer a range of benefits to our staff. Please note that the examples shown are just some of what may be available, and eligibility can vary depending on your role or contract type. For instance, certain benefits may not apply to casual workers .

• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement with the option of purchasing addition annual leave
• Access to staff health and wellbeing support
• Personal development and career progression
• Staff discount schemes and other benefits e.g., cycle-to-work scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies

We adopt an ‘anonymous recruitment’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to…