Care Assistant
Posted 7hrs ago
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Job Description
Part-time Home Instead Care Assistant providing companionship and personalised home care for older adults in Chorley and Adlington. Supporting independence, medication routines, meals and personal care.
Responsibilities:
- Visit clients in their own homes and provide personalised care and support
- Provide companionship and build meaningful relationships with clients
- Support older people and adults to remain independent in their own homes
- Assist with personal care while maintaining dignity, privacy and respect
- Provide medication reminders and support medication routines according to care plans and training
- Prepare nutritious meals and support healthy eating
- Help clients maintain daily routines and wellbeing
- Ensure clients feel safe, comfortable and supported
- Encourage independence and support each individual's personal needs and preferences
- Provide unhurried, relationship-led care
Requirements:
- No previous care experience or qualifications are required
- Kind, caring and compassionate
- Patient, understanding and respectful
- Reliable, trustworthy and punctual
- Good communicator who enjoys meeting people
- Passionate about helping others
- Committed to providing high-quality care
- Able to work independently and as part of a friendly team
- Full UK driving licence
- Access to your own reliable vehicle
- Availability to work alternate weekends, or weekend-only shifts if applying for weekend work
Benefits:
- £30.00 per hour on Bank Holidays – enhanced double-time pay
- Paid induction and training days
- Paid online training completed in your own home
- Subsidised fuel allowance and paid mileage
- Fully funded Care Certificate qualification
- Fully funded DBS application
- £150–£300 Refer a Friend bonus
- Award-winning training and career development opportunities
- Personal employee awards and recognition
- Exclusive employee discounts and Home Instead benefits
- Blue Light Card discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme for wellbeing and work-life support
- Workplace pension scheme
- A friendly, inclusive and supportive team















