Company Description
We are a family run company; part of a network of 200+ award winning Home Instead offices across the UK. Our goal is to provide the highest quality of care to our clients, enabling them to remain safely in their own homes as an alternative to residential care.

We have been rated as 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Benefits
Our Care Assistants are what make us 'Outstanding' and our benefits reflect this:

• Excellent rates of pay: £14.70/hr before 6:15pm
• £15.80/hr after 6:15pm
• Double rates on Public Holidays
• PAID Care Assistant training
• PAID travel time & mileage at 55p between client visits
• PAID holiday
• PAID pension scheme after completion of probationary period
• Evening, weekend and daytime work available from 10-35 hours per week, depending on your availability

Duties
You will be supporting our clients with a variety of day-to-day tasks, duties will include:

• Companionship - Ensuring a client enjoys regular and meaningful social interaction is an important part of your visit.
• Help with everyday tasks such as meal preparation and light housework
• Personal care - Supporting our clients with the essentials such as bathing, showering, dressing and grooming to help maintain a healthy and independent lifestyle
• Accompany to appointments or shopping

Job Description
We are looking for people with kind, compassionate hearts who want to make a true difference to the quality of life of our clients in St Albans, Harpenden & Radlett. Every one of our clients is unique and special, the joy and comfort our clients receive from one of our Care Professionals visiting them makes this an incredibly rewarding job.

Qualifications
You MUST have:

• the right to work in the UK - we currently CANNOT offer sponsorship
• your own car, business (B1) insurance, MOT and of course a valid driving licence

We need you to be be based a maximum of 6 miles from one of the three towns we service:

• St Albans
• Harpenden
• Radlett

No previous experience is required. We will provide you with the training you need to feel confident when providing care to our valued clients.

We carefully review every application received. However, if you do not meet the basic requirements described above, your application will not be taken forward. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications, we are unable to contact all unsuccessful candidates individually.

Additional Information
What to expect as a Home Instead Care Professional:

• Three day paid training course
• Introductions and shadow visits
• Minimum visits 1-hour
• Matching process (Care Professionals to Clients) based on client needs, availability, hobbies and interests
• Ongoing support from our friendly office team

To see a full listing of all our open positions please visit our website: Apply via the company portal