CARE Assistant - Evenings 5pm-10.00pm and Weekends

Home Instead
Belfast
2 weeks ago
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Company Description

Home Instead Down & Lisburn covers, Greater Belfast, Saintfield, Bangor, Ballynahinch, Downpatrick, Newcastle and Lisburn areas. We are currently looking for Care professionals who are passionate about care and want to make a difference to the lives of our older people. The 'Home Instead Way' includes personalised one-to- one care, visits at a minimum of an hour and an optimistic outlook on age. Our Care Professionals go above and beyond every day to make a positive difference to somebody's life.

Job Description

If you're looking for a role where you are a valued member of the team, that is flexible around your lifestyle, offers guaranteed hours and is doing something that genuinely makes a difference, look no further. We are looking for people with kind, compassionate hearts who want to make a true difference to the quality of life for our clients to join our team inCo Down and Greater Belfast areas.As a Care Professional, you will provide a variety of non-medical services to help them keep independent in their own home.

At Home Instead Down and Lisburn, we can offer the following benefits for our Care Professionals:

  • Great rates of pay -from £12.00 per hour and enhanced bank holiday rates
  • Minimum 1-hour calls- giving you the time to care.
  • Flexible hoursorGuaranteed hours contractsfor those looking for more stability
  • Training- full induction programme where we provide award winning training
  • Auto-enrolment pension scheme
  • Employee referral bonus programme
  • Mileagepaid as applicable
  • Employee assistance programme- access to counselling and other support
  • Exclusive discounts scheme- supermarkets, high street stores and more.


We can offer fixed hour contracts or if you're happy to have a zero-hours contract because it suits your lifestyle, that's fine too. We can discuss your working preferences with you and go from there.

Pay Rate starting at £12.00 per hour

Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Qualifications

You do not need any experience or particular qualifications to become a Care Professional. However, it would be useful to have some experience of working in a care setting or interacting with older people. This could be personal experience of caring for a family member or voluntary experience. You will have a passion for supporting others and pride yourself on delivering an outstanding service. You will be reliable, trustworthy and respectful. You will enjoy building professional friendships and comfortable in spending time in the company of others.

Full training provided.

You must hold a full driving licence and have the use of reliable transportation

Additional Information

This role is UK based and the right to work in the UK will need to be established as part of the recruitment process

As a Care Professional, you will receive industry leading training, great rates of pay and excellent support.

If you're looking for work which is extremely rewarding and satisfactory and have a high degree of flexibility to meet our clients' needs, we would love to hear from you. Please click on 'I'm Interested' or alternatively, contact us on

We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This role is subject to Access NI enhanced disclosure.

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