Care Assistant

One Day At  A Time Home Care is a family-run, domicilary care company based in Woodley (RG5 3LE). We aim to work in partnership with service users, their family and/or friends to provide care of the highest quality, promoting independence within the framework of the essential values of daily living. One Day At A Time Home Care believes in placing local staff in local employment and is able to provide experienced care and support staff to look after every need, in the comfort of a person's own home.

The main duties and responsibilities of a Care Assistant:

The main duties and responsibilities of a Care Assistant is to ensure the needs of our clients are met, including: providing personal care, such as showering, shaving, oral hygiene and dressing, administering medication, monitoring health and wellbeing, maintaining records and reporting any changes, assisting with meal preparation and helping with general household jobs, and always providing person-centred care to uphold hightest quality standards.

What skills and qualities do you need to be a care worker:

• Sensitivity and understanding 
• A desire to help people
• The ability to work well with others
• Patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations 
• The ability to accept criticism and work well under pressure 
• To be thorough and pay attention to details

Requirements of a Care Assistant:

• Full UK Driving Licence. (With your own transport to travel to clients' homes).
• DBS (formerly CRB) check
• References
• Mandatory Training. (We also provide training for people with no experience )
• To provide care in accordance with best practice and legislative requirements, reflecting policies and procedures and agreed standards under the direction of the Senior Carer.
• To support and enable Clients to maintain skills and personal interests whilst delivering person-centred care unique to each individual.
• To maintain skills at a current level, undertake such training and development as required from time-to-time to maintain and progress knowledge.

We are committed to treating others, clients and staff alike, as our own. "Love each other, always be truthful, be the best we can be, smile and laugh often, do what makes us happy" are the family values that we live by.

Helping others is what drives us and we do this by offering individuals the opportunity to stay at home, maintain their dignity and preserve as much freedom and independence as possible. We strive to keep families together, alleviate any feeling of isolation, guilt and burden and endeavour to make sure the care we provide is safe and that we meet your expectations.

Our inspiration

We are only human. We just need to believe in what we can be and all that we are.

We can learn to climb the stairway...together

One Day At A Time...That's all we're asking

To have the strength to do every day what we have to do 

Yesterday's gone and tomorrow may never be ours

Let's help each other today and find the way

One Day At A Time.

Written by Marijohn Wilkin and Kris Kristofferson. Adapted by us.

We focus on what we can do today - and deal with tomorrow when it comes. Our dedicated caregivers deliver the best possible service at all times and are always prepared to go the extra mile.

We strive to continuously develop and improve the quality of our care, both personally and professionlly. This practice ensures we deliver a consistently diverse service to meet the personal needs of every client, at all times and in all circumstances.

We offer:

- Very competitive rates of pay, enhanced for weekends and bank holidays

- Pay mileages and bonus for car share

- Free uniform and paid DBS

- Use of innovative care management system to facilitate quality care delivery

- Paid induction and post induction training

- Great opportunities for career development within home care service

- Flexible hours available but you need to be able to work some weekends