Specialist Home Care Assistant

Role: Specialist Home Care Assistant

Location: Bournemouth

Pay rate: £13.70 - £15.70 per hour

Travel: £12.71 per hour + 40p per mile mileage allowance

Hours: Full-time, including alternate weekends (days off to include every Thursday and every other weekend)

Shift pattern: 07:00 to 14:00 & 16:00 to 22:00 

As a Specialist Home Care Assistant with Care South, we ensure you are paid for not just your contact time but also your travel time. On top of this, we pay a generous mileage rate of 40p per mile.

Care South, a leading not-for-profit charity, have exciting opportunities for a Specialist Home Care Assistant to join our Bournemouth Care at Home team. 

The Specialist Home Care Assistant plays a vital role in motivating and encouraging clients with a diverse range of social needs and medical conditions in their homes, supporting them to improve their independence.

 This role is a mix of community and office-based work; it is essential that applicants hold a driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

Rewards and Benefits

A career in care means constantly improving the quality of people’s lives and offers a stimulating and incredibly rewarding career. As a not-for-profit charity, we focus on the reward and recognition of all our amazing people within the Care South Team.

• Paid travel time.
• Enhanced rate on Bank Holidays. 
• 40p per mile mileage allowance, paid fortnightly.
• Online/retail discounts.
• Paid induction and training.
• Employee referral bonus scheme.
• Free DBS check.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Life insurance.
• Staff association.
• Onsite learning and development team.
• Career progression.
• Competitive pay rates.
• Flexible working hours.
• Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes.

What You’ll Be Doing & Why You’ll Love Working with Us

• Completing quality needs assessments, producing relevant documentation, and completing weekly reviews of outcomes. 
• Assessing clients' tailored reablement plans and risk assessments. Reviewing and updating these on a daily and weekly basis. 
• Assisting with signposting clients to services which will ensure their continued independence after the reablement programme service has ceased. 
• Supporting clients with personal care tasks such as washing, dressing, bathing, shaving, hair washing and oral hygiene and to undertake these tasks themselves where appropriate to maintain their independence. 
• Supporting clients with daily living tasks such as domestic cleaning and shopping.
• Assisting clients with meal planning, preparation and cooking. 
  
  You will receive a comprehensive induction with;

• Ongoing training and development.
• Support from a friendly, experienced team and colleagues.
• You will deliver person-centred care that truly makes a difference.
• Providing high-quality support to enable individuals to remain independent.
• You will support our clients to build confidence and remain independent.
• As a valued member of our team, Home Care Assistants are key to helping us provide good quality care our clients deserve.
• You will be responsible for the needs of clients and ensuring their dignity.
• You will help with personal care such as personal hygiene, toileting, and dressing.
•  Care is at the HEART of everything we do; it’s values that inspire us, not profits.

About you:

• Previous experience in a care setting is desirable but not required.
• You will have a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Flexible in the hours you can work and ability to work every other weekend.
• Strong attention to detail and reporting skills.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• You will hold an enhanced DBS on the update service or be prepared to undertake one.

What You Need to Know

• You must be 18 years or older.
• We are unable to offer Visa Sponsorship.

Ready to Join Us?

If you’re kind, caring, and ready to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and become part of something truly special with Care South at Home Bournemouth.