Care Assistant - Newark & Sherwood

Job description

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.

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

If you have experience as a Care Assistant, Support Worker, Carer, Care Home Assistant, Health Care Assistant or in the NHS we would love to hear from you.

However, if you do not have experience, don't worry, as we provide full training and encourage candidates from all sectors to apply, for example: retail sales assistant, customer service, hairdressers/beauticians, receptionist, administrator, cleaners, warehouse workers and delivery drivers.

This could be the start of your new career, with our full support and outstanding training, anything is possible if you put your head and heart into it.

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. 

You must have:

• Full and valid UK driving licence
• Access to a car
• Right to work in the UK (unfortunately we are unable to provide sponsorship)
• 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 different shifts, starting from 7am or finishing at 10pm, and also being able to work alternate weekends.

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

• Generous rates of pay from £12.75 per hour to £26.50  
• 30p mileage allowance plus paid travel time  
• 28 days holiday pro rata
• Ongoing training and support
• Flexible working 
• Pension scheme 
• Health and wellbeing benefits
• Career development including the opportunity to study for NVQs in Health &                 Social Care
• Care Friends (refer a friend bonus)
• Free uniform
• Company Events
• Contracted hours may be available following successful completion of the 12                 week probationary period.

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.