Live-in Care Assistant - Eastbourne & East Sussex region

Job description

Providing Quality Care

Experienced care staff needed - ideally with live-in care experience

Location Areas - Eastbourne, Uckfield, Crowborough, Forest Row, Heathfield, Wadhurst, Hailsham, East Sussex

Professional Care experience is essential for this role - Unfortunately applications will be ignored if you have no professional care experience and are based in UK or have a UK work visa.

Bluebird Care is an award winning care provider in the East Sussex area. We are looking to recruit the best experienced caring and passionate Live-in Carers to join our outstanding care team to provide quality care to people in their own homes.

Your Roles and Responsibilities as a Live-in Care Assistant 

As a Live-In Care Assistant you will be living with one of our customers or maybe even a couple to provide the very best care. You are there to be a companion, but also to help them remain independent in their own home and cherish all the memories they’ve made there.

• 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.
• Household chores
• Meal preparation
• Shopping
• Social Outings
• Offering our customers companionship

Your Experience and Suitability for the Live-in Care Assistant Role

Live-in Care Assistants are matched to our customers to ensure our customers and you get along so the most important thing to us is that you are naturally compassionate, caring and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if they were their own family.

Because We Care About You 

• Competitive wages paid monthly
• Paid holidays up to 28 days a year
• Free training to all staff
• We cover your hotel costs during the 1st week of Induction training if needed.
• Regular support and supervision to help you settle in.
• Training support for new Health and Social Care qualifications
• Working in a lovely area by the sea or local towns in countryside.
• Company pension scheme depending on eligibility
• Private Healthcare scheme (inc dependants) Must be UK resident.

Requirements:

We are looking for people with qualities such as:

• a friendly and caring approach and a genuine desire to help others
• the ability to relate to people with a variety of background
• tact and sensitivity and a respectful approach to customers
• a professional, reliable and flexible attitude
• patience and a sense of humour
• good at following care compliance
• professional care experience (live in care, home care or residential/nursing care)

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.