Care Assistant / Support Worker
Job Title: Support Worker
Reference Number: HCPA004191
Company Name: Freedom care (Herts) LTD
Shifts Available: Mornings , Evenings , Days , Nights , Weekends
Location: Broxbourne, Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, Stanstead Abbotts, Ware
Type of Care Provider: Support at Home
Supporting individuals with: Dementia , Older Adults , Learning Disability , Physical Disability
Pay/Salary: £13.50 - £15.00 Per Hour
Hours of Work: Up to 36 Hours Per Week - 07:00 - 15:00 / 15:00 - 22:00 - Alternate Weekends (FLEXIBLE PROVIDER)
Driving Required: Yes
Contract Type: 0 Hours Contract
Freedom Care (Herts) Ltd is seeking a Support Worker for our family run business covering the Broxbourne, Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, Ware and Stansted Abbots areas. We provide personal care, medication, nutrition and fluids, light housework duties, companionship visits and helping client's access the community. We pride ourselves with providing person-centred care at all times, and at a high standard. We have recently received an award for being in the top 20 providers in the whole East of England area.
We have good relationships with our service users, being open and transparent at all times. The care we provide must be the care (and above) that we would expect our own family members to receive.
- £12.21 per hour for travel time
- 40p per mile reimbursement
- Competitive pay rates
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Small, friendly team with supportive colleagues
- Highly regarded by lovely clients
- Enrolment in Bupa Healthcare cashback plan after 3 months
- Minimum 45-minute morning calls to ensure quality care
Care Professional Academy Rewards include:
- Hertfordshire based Rewards
- Student Discount Packages
- Access to a Student Card - usually exclusive to university students!
- Care Professional Rewards: Discount codes, cashback and savings on over 800 UK retailers including Sainsbury’s, Argos, Boots, Marks & Spencer, Tesco, John Lewis/Waitrose, Apple, Pizza Hut and many more.
- Discounts on travel including bus ticket discounts, reduced servicing, and car leasing.
Our day to day duties vary depending on the visit we do and the service user but typically may involve:
- Morning calls - entail all aspects of personal care, toileting including incontinence care, catheter care, oral hygiene, making the bed, breakfast, medication, putting the washing machine on, light housework duties.
- Lunch time - toileting, incontinence /catheter care, nutrition and fluids, medication, light housework duites.
- Tea time - toileting, incontinence /catheter care, nutrition and fluids, medication, light housework duites.
- Evening call - toileting, incontinence /catheter care , nutrition and fluids, medication, getting them changed for bed and possibly assisting into bed.
- Companionship calls - where we are there to interact with service users and reduce them feeling isolated or to give their main carer some respite.
- Accessing the community - going for coffee, walks, taking service users to appointments, clubs/church etc, depending on their needs and wishes.
