• Title Care Assistant
  • Setting Clients Home
  • Role Carer / Support Worker
  • Salary Pay will start at £12 per hour, paid travel time and mileage
  • Hours Full Time or Part Time
  • Location Chorley, Lancashire

Job Summary

Date posted: 20 February 2025
  • Job Reference: Ref homecare.co.uk

Hiring Now – Caregiver.  Could you be someone’s angel? 

Our local, Chorley-based business is family run with community-based values. Visiting Angels are a leading care provider in the US, launched in the UK in 2017, now have 800 offices worldwide and are the fastest growing Care Franchise in the UK.

We were over the moon to have achieved a Good across the board after our first CQC inspection earlier this year. Due to the team’s hard work and vision, Visiting Angels Central Lancashire won the International Visiting Angels 'Rising Angel' award, and more recently, our Managing Director was awarded Employer of the Year 2023 in the Enterprise Vision Awards.

We know that our caregivers are brilliant, loving, professional people doing amazing work that makes a real difference. Our Caregivers are at the heart of everything we do, and we encourage and support them in delivering care the way it should be. We believe that care cannot be rushed, that’s why we pay travel time and mileage between clients giving you “time to care”, and to show appreciation for the outstanding job you do supporting our clients’ needs.

We are fully behind you if you have a drive for career progression, and, as a young company, have many opportunities! We are offering the exciting opportunity for you to join our team where you will help to grow and strengthen our work family.

Benefits:

  • Pay starting at £12 per hour (£12.20 after probation)
  • Additional paid travel time at £10.50 p/h AND mileage allowance at 35p p/m
  • Loyalty pay increase AND annual guaranteed pay rise
  • £100 refer a friend scheme
  • Paid induction training
  • Paid in-house training modules
  • Paid DBS
  • Client visits without hurry
  • Company pension scheme
  • Career Progression

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a part-time Morning and evening workers who want to embark on a new care journey. There will be extra work available, but the commitment will be primarily to mornings, with shifts starting from 7am. Alternate weekend work will be part of the role.

We need someone who has a flare for care! Someone who will deliver care to the best of their ability with a kind and friendly manner. Someone who will go that extra mile to help another. If you are punctual and reliable, please apply today!

If this sounds like you and you want to work for a company that puts their caregivers first, then Visiting Angels are the company for you. Join us today to become an Angel! All we ask is that you have:

  • A full driving license and use of car
  • A friendly and caring personality
  • Flexibility, reliability and honesty
  • Good communication and listening skills
  • Proof of Right-to-work in the United Kingdom

Skills / Qualifications:

  • kind
  • caring
  • compassionate
  • reliable
  • hard working
  • patient