Care Assistant - Morwenstow and Kilkhampton

Job description

While many Care providers only pay for your contact time, we believe that you should be paid for every minute that you are being a Bluebird Care Ambassador, even if you are driving in your car.
Providing Quality Care
Bluebird Care started as a small family business in 2004, and today we are proud to be one of the largest providers of home care services across the UK. But what makes us different?

We’re committed to keeping people in the comfort of their own home, so we help with anything from everyday tasks around our customers’ homes through to complex care needs. We appreciate that every customer is different, and this is why every day will be different.

We were awarded ‘Outstanding/Excellent by CQC/Care Inspectorate and for that reason, we pride ourselves on selecting the very best Care Assistants. If you are passionate about providing the very best care, then this role could be the role for you.

Roles and Responsibilities as a Care Assistant 
Providing personal care duties
Administering medication
Manual handling, using equipment where required
Promoting customer health and well-being, enabling them to live their life to the full
Your Experience and Suitability for the Care Assistant Role
It’s isn’t about previous experience. We want to ensure our customer receives the very best care and to do that we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.

 But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.

You must have:

Full and valid UK driving licence
Access to a car
Right to work in the UK 
Excellent level of English
 

Because We Care About You 
We understand that every member of our team has their own family to care for and this is why our role offers the flexibility to work around your own home life. You can choose between full-time or part-time work; all you have to do is simply tell us your availability. Although we try to be flexible where we can, we do require you to be flexible with us too, that’s why we will require you to work an agreed availability, including every other weekend. 

We can’t care for our customers if we don’t take care of our team so to make this possible, we offer: 

An excellent rate of £12.52ph. £13.04ph on weekends increasing to £22ph on bank holidays. 
35p mileage allowance 
28 days holiday pro rata
Full training induction and a period of shadowing an experienced carer
Ongoing training and support
Flexible working 
Pension scheme 
Smartphone technology so you can do everything at the tap of a finger
Free uniform
Travel time is paid between visits at a rate of £11.44ph
Monthly bonus
Refer a friend scheme  
Healthcare scheme
 

But not only that, we take care of our team throughout the year, whether it's your birthday, Christmas, awards or simply because it’s a Thursday. We’re a family and we’re here to look after you today, tomorrow and every other day after that.