Job Description
Job description
If you live in the Lancaster area, we need you!
Lancaster - Caton - Galgate - Carnforth - Warton - Silverdale - Bolton-le-Sands and surrounding areas.
Westmorland Homecare are seeking kind-hearted, compassionate, and caring people to join the ever-growing team of Homecare Assistants.
Westmorland Homecare started its incredible journey in Kendal and covers the South Lakes area and has achieved 2 Outstanding Ratings from the CQC within the first 3 years. We are extremely proud to have expanded our service into the Lancaster and Morecambe area in 2020 and we are delighted to announce that we have been CQC rated OUTSTANDING in September 2022. We are a unique high-quality care company that always goes the extra mile for their clients & staff.
We are proud to be the only care provider in the country to have received a CQC Outstanding result at all of our branches.
Each Homecare Assistant will be assigned their own set of regular clients and will have the chance to make a difference to people’s lives within the community and make friendships that will last a lifetime.
We work in ways that promote Kindness and create treasured memories for both you and your clients. You will be working for an organisation that promotes Innovative ideas as we provide care that is tailored to suit the individual’s needs and preferences. As part of your role, your work will be varied depending on each client that you visit as we provide a different range of services.
Becoming a dedicated member of the team means you will build Trusting relationships with clients, their families, and your colleagues. By working in such ways, we see helping clients in need as a huge privilege and one we are respectful of to enable them to live Enriching, happy lives in their own homes.
Put simply, a job at Westmorland Homecare will probably be the best job you have ever had.
Responsibilities
Your role will be varied from day to day from helping people get up, washed, and dressed in a morning to administering medication and assisting people to get settled at night time, ready for bed and monitoring throughout the night. We strive to help people live a fulfilled and enriched life through everything we do. Our values are something we are very proud of.
Experience Required
We are looking for people who enjoy helping others and want a job with a feel-good factor. Experience is preferred but not essential as full training is provided. You will enjoy doing something special every day and you will have a job you can be proud of doing. Being able to drive is essential. We do not offer Visa Sponsorship.
If you are a driver, and you are interested in this role, we would love to hear from you.
Job Benefits
- Be respected, valued, appreciated, and thanked for your hard work!
- Become a health and social care professional carer
- Starting hourly rate of £13
- Paid travel time for all carers
- Paid mileage
- Career progression opportunities for all Homecare Assistants
- The same regular clients for all your visits as a carer
- Long-term stability
- Generous pension scheme
- Double time on Bank Holidays
- Westmorland Homecare only provide great care, without having to rush
- Work at the company working to be the best in the country
- We are a company that cares about you and looks after you too
- Great comprehensive training and lots of support from day one
- Regular shift patterns with guaranteed hours
- Lots of training and development opportunities for all Homecare Assistants
- Funded NVQs (now QCFs)
- Fantastic employee benefits
Contacts
If this sounds like a role you could undertake, we would love to chat with you. Please call Rhianna - Recruitment Coordinator on 01524 956 240 for an informal chat about the role and to receive more information on the Job Description!
Job Type: Zero hours contract
Salary: £13.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Referral programme
- Wellness programme
Schedule:
Application question(s):
- What makes you the ideal candidate for this position?
Licence/Certification:
- UK Driving Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: One location
Reference ID: Feb23
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