Care Assistant

Home Instead is expanding its team and looking for caring, compassionate Care Assistants to help with elderly care and to support adults living at home with a range of needs throughout the local area.

Care Assistants support clients in the community to live and remain in their own home. Due to the nature of the role in the community you must be willing to travel around Wakefield and commit to working a combination of the following shift times 7am – 2.30pm and 3.45pm – 9.45pm including alternative weekends and bank holidays. We can offer part time and full time hours from 16 to 37 hours a week.

At Home Instead, we can offer the following benefits for our Care Assistants:

£300 joining bonus! Ts and Cs apply

• £13.00 per hour
• Additional paid travel time at £13.00 per hour
• 30p mileage allowance
• Guaranteed hours
• Company Pension Scheme
• Local & Professional Support Team available
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Free DBS Check
• Upcapped £300 Refer A Friend Scheme
• Employee Benefits & Discount Scheme
• Ongoing Professional Development Training

We are looking for applicants who live in Wakefield to assist our clients in the following areas -

Normanton

Featherstone

Crofton

Ackworth

Fitzwilliam

Horbury

Outwood

You will support clients with:

• Personal care tasks
• Medication
• Meal preparation
• Light housekeeping
• Shopping
• General companionship and wellbeing
• Taking clients to medical appointments