Care Worker

Job summary

At Age Care Advice, we offer an award-winning Domiciliary Care service, providing Home Care, Companionship, Live-in Care and Personal Care to support clients in their daily living in the comfort of their own homes. The head office is based in Bourne, however the company currently serves areas including Bourne, Stamford, Market Deeping and surrounding villages.

We have an excellent opportunity for the role of a Female Home Care Assistant to join our team here at Age Care Advice in the Bourne and Stamford areas.

Are you a team player? Are you a kind and compassionate person looking to make a difference in people’s lives? Then we want to hear from you!

Our ideal candidate:

• Proactive person who can use your own decision making
• Reliable, conscientious and committed
• Good team player but confident about lone working
• Flexible and willing..
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Excellent Organisational Skills and Good Time Keeping
• A willingness to learn and adapt
• To have Resourcefulness, Stamina, Motivation and Perseverance
• To always maintain Professionalism
• Basic cookery skills and hygiene.
• Experience of carrying out personal care.
• Empathetic to people and kind
• A desire to genuinely help other people and make a difference
• Car Driver Essential 

Section 7(2b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 applies that there is a genuine occupational requirement for female staff for this position

The role:

• Perform light housekeeping tasks, such as dusting, vacuuming and changing bed clothes.
• Provide Companionship
• Accompany Service Users to medical appointments.
• Observe, monitor and record Service Users' physical and emotional well-being, and promptly report any changes to senior staff.
• Encourage and support Service Users to participate in social and recreational activities.
• Assist clients with personal care tasks, such as washing, dressing, eating and toileting, medication administration.
• Assist in the safe lifting, transferring, repositioning and movement of clients.

Benefits / Package

• 21 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, pro rata
• Ongoing training and development.
• Career progression opportunities.
• Flexitime 
• Free confidential employee counselling helpline
• Employee of the month award
• Paid Travel time and mileage
• Opportunity to gain Diplomas and other qualifications