Job Description
Benefits:
The Private Care Company aim to employ and retain the highest quality live in carers in Brighton & Hove and in return for your skills, experience and commitment we offer excellent working conditions and benefits including:
- Pay up to £826/week (inclusive of 5 weeks paid holiday)
- Enhanced rates on Bank Holidays
- Ongoing regular work with regular clients
- Extensive training and a wide variety of ongoing online training available as well as Health and Social Care Diplomas (Levels 3 & 5)
- £150 Training Incentive payment paid on completion of three months employment
- Excellent career progression and training opportunities
- A friendly and supportive management team
- Regular communication including monthly newsletters and recognition awards
- Free counselling and wellbeing support
- All of our carers are directly employed by us entitling you to holiday pay and company pension
Job Description:
The Private Care Company is a private, award winning and fully independent home care agency. We pride ourselves on our excellent reputation to provide high quality home care services which support our clients to remain independently living in their own homes for as long as possible.
We are currently looking to recruit a full-time live-in care assistant to work in the Brighton & Hove area. You must have previous experience working as a professional care assistant and ideally have relevant qualifications and training. You will have a caring nature and demonstrate our core values of kindness, compassion and empathy.
Key Accountabilities
- To support clients to live independently and safely in their own homes
- To live-in (including sleeping) the clients home during the assignment period
- To deliver all tasks stated on the care plans to an excellent standard and in accordance with all The Private Care Company’s policies and procedures, best practice, agreed standards, legislative requirements, relevant regulations
- To carry out and assist clients of The Private Care Company with a variety of personal, practical and general care tasks.
- To support client’s food and fluid intake as directed by the care plan, and to ensure documentation of all intake as per training
- To maintain care skills at the required level and undertake such training and development as may from time to time be required
- To communicate with and report any incidents to the care manager as necessary to ensure high standards of care are delivered
- To liaise with other professionals such as district nurses, doctors, pharmacists, occupational therapists etc, to ensure that clients receive a high standard of care
Skills / Experience / Knowledge:
- The Care Certificate (full training provided)
- Multi-skilled care delivery capability
- Live-in care experience
- Manual handling training
- Good written and oral communication skills
- A minimum of six months previous experience working as a live-in care assistant or in a residential/care/nursing home or home/domiciliary care setting
Person Profile:
- Kind, caring and patient
- Adaptable
- Able to think on feet
- Able to manage difficult situations
- Reliable
- Able to commit to working a minimum of two weeks at a time
- Currently residing in the UK - we are unable to provide sponsorship for overseas applicants
- Able to reliably commute to Brighton & Hove
In return for your hard work and commitment we will pay you £737.10 per week, plus holiday pay which equates to £826 per week.
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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £737.00-£826.00 per week
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Referral programme
COVID-19 considerations:
Uniform, PPE and regular lateral flow tests provided
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Hove: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- care: 1 year (required)
- live-in care: 1 year (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person