Position Overview & Specifications
Job description
**We have positions available from 10 - 40 hours per week**
**Increased Salary!!!** 10.55 - 15 £ per hour
Caremark Peterborough are looking for full time or part time Care Assistants to join our small, friendly team and grow with us to create an outstanding service.
We are community based, so own transport is essential and due to timings of calls applicants should be within Peterborough area. We have positions available for morning, lunch, tea and bed calls.
The shift pattern will be on a 2 week rolling rota, to include every other weekend.
We deliver services from 07:00 to 22:00 seven days a week.
We offer full training, so no experience is required - and if you have got experience in other sectors such as retail or hospitality, those experiences are valuable to us and can be helpful when offering support.
As a Care Assistant, you will be required to support people that may be elderly, or have physical disabilities, health problems or conditions such as dementia. Services we offer include:
- Personal Care, medication or meal preparation
- Companionship
- Accessing the community for shopping or appointments
- Light domestic duties
- Support with moving and handling
Caremark Peterborough offer all Care Assistants:
- Full, comprehensive training & Care Certificate
- Paid mileage good rate
- Free uniform & PPE needed to carry out role safely
- New staff "Welcome Pack"
- Support to progress & gain a National Qualification such as NVQ (QCF)
- On Call service with management support and guidance
- Pension enrolment
- Enhanced weekend and Bank Holiday Pay
- Regular staff meetings
Care Assistant Qualities
- Friendly, honest, reliable
- Good communication skills (written & verbally)
- Can work alone or part of a team
Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Check.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 20 per week
Salary: £10.55-£15.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person