Senior Community Care Assistant

We are a successful business providing excellent care to our clients in their own homes, in Grantham and Newark and villages in between. We are expanding our responsibilities and have a vacancy for an excellent care professional who meets the following requirements and who is confident they could contribute fully to our future success.

• Delivering excellent care to our clients in their homes
• Working closely with the Care Manager to monitor and improve the services the company provide
• Shadowing and introducing staff in client calls
• Working with scheduling and recruitment to help ensure effective utilization of staff plus to recruitment of the right candidates
• You will share on-call responsibilities where you will liaise and advise fellow team members plus be a contact for our clients, their relatives and relevant authorities

You will be expected to work around 25 hours in the community and around 10 hours in the office.

This is a full time position around 30 to 40 hours per week, with shifts varying between 7:30am to 9:30pm, including alternate weekends.

Care calls will be a minimum of 1 hour

£14.05 per hour

Travel time is paid at £12.21 and mileage at 30p per mile

0 hours contract at present

• Minimum of an NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care and working towards Level 3
• Full UK licence with access to own car
• 2 years experience in home care and 1 year supervisory experience (preferred)
• Female applicants only due to client preference
• Must live up to 10 miles of Grantham

Ideally looking for candidates with local knowledge of Grantham area and surrounding villages - this so they have common interests and can relate with our clients.

To be a successful you will have the following skills and experience:

• Experience of delivering care to clients in their own homes
• Experience using digital care plan and monitoring systems
• Excellent communication & computer skills
• Positive role model
• Great team building skills
• Be flexible, adaptable and able to work effectively in a varirty of settings

In return you will receive a competitive rate of pay and benefits depending on experience and qualifications. We also encourage and will help fund further career development and training. Opportunities for career progression.