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Job Description
Part-time Care Assistant providing companionship, personal care, medication support, and household help to older adults around Braintree. Home Instead provides training, mileage reimbursement, and career progression.
Responsibilities:
- Help around clients’ homes
- Assist with meal preparation
- Provide companionship, including reading to clients or watching their favourite shows
- Administer medication
- Perform light housekeeping
- Provide personal care, including helping clients dress, wash, and get into or out of bed
- Complete training sessions, shadow shifts, and ongoing refresher training
Requirements:
- Caring, reliable, and passionate about helping others
- Driving license and vehicle required
- Experience is not necessary; training is provided
- Must be available for 3–4 evenings per week
- Able to work 2–3 hours or more per day
- Evening and weekend availability
- Must be eligible to work in the UK; sponsorship is not offered
Benefits:
- Paid mileage and travel time between visits
- Excellent training courses
- Free Health Cash Plan & Employee Assistance Plan
- Paid DBS check
- Refer a friend scheme: Get additional bonuses where you can earn £150 per referral
- City and Guilds Care Certificate
- Access to a Blue Light Card with up to 15000 discount opportunities
- Recognition rewards
- Career development pathway including NVQs and genuine opportunities for progression
- Higher rates after 9pm
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