Care Assistant (Felixstowe Team)

Would you like to work for the world’s leading provider of non-medical care, companionship, home help and personal care services for older people?

Would you like to be part of our ‘Outstanding’ and award winning ‘Team of the Year’?

At Home Instead Ipswich, Felixstowe and Woodbridge, we are immensely proud of the quality of care we provide for our clients. We will offer you a minimum of 1-hour visits to our clients in the community; this ensures you have the time you need to help a client with their day to day living. You will also receive our award-winning training.

We are looking for our next Care Professionals who will support our clients in the local community to live independently in their own homes. Our Care Professionals have regular clients they visit for a minimum of 1-hour. This enables our clients to live well at home and to continue with their day to day living. This includes supporting clients to get up and ready for the day, medication support, meal preparation, companionship, and home help. We are looking for people that are kind, compassionate, naturally caring, observant and intuitive who want to make a difference. So, if you are looking for a career change, you work in social care already or you are a work returner we offer full award-winning training and support.

These are some of our many Care Professional benefits:

• Excellent pay rates - from £11.00 to £11.50 per hour
• Bank holidays paid at double time
• Guaranteed contracted hours
• Minimum of 1-hour visits to clients
• Paid travel and waiting time at the same hourly rate
• Mileage paid at 45p per mile
• Initial shadow and introduction visits
• Regular support visits and team meetings
• Paid holiday and training
• Paid DBS after qualifying period
• PPE free of charge and delivered
• Rated ‘Outstanding’ with CQC
• Private health care and pension
• Employee Assistant Programme
• Home Instead Benefits

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 DBS enhanced disclosure.

Please call us on 01473 272301 or 01394 617558