Weekend/Evening Care Assistant - Camden & Hampstead

Job description

Providing Outstanding Care

London Live-in Wage Payer - Starting from £13.15 per hour.

Bluebird Care Camden & Hampstead is recruiting for passionate and committed Evening/Weekend Care Assistants

Please apply if you are interested in joining our dedicated and established team who have a proven track record in supporting and delivering high-quality care for people living in their own homes across the borough of Camden. We pride ourselves on selecting the very best care assistants.

We have been rated as an ‘Outstanding’ domiciliary and live-in care provider, by our regulator the Care Quality Commission after our last two inspections. We were the first care provider in North London to be recognised as 'Outstanding'. We are a multi-award-winning business, most recently being awarded 'National Care Team of the Year' and 'Palliative Care Assistant of the Year' at the Great British Care Awards 2022.

We focus our energy on supporting our care team and making sure they are happy and have the skills and confidence needed to provide the best possible care to our customers.

Roles and Responsibilities will likely include:

• Providing personal care
• Administering medication
• Manual handling, using equipment where required
• Promoting customer health and well-being, enabling them to live their life to the full
• Companionship
• Light domestic work
• Going out into the community

Your experience and suitability for the care assistant role

Previous experience isn't always necessary. We want to ensure our customers receive the very best care and to do that we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring, and patient. Our team and culture is one that genuinely supports one another and cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.

We'll ensure you have all the right training, development, and support from day one and throughout your time at Bluebird Care Camden & Hampstead.

You must have:

• 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 lifestyle and personal commitments so we work with each individual to make sure that their hours of availability work for both them and also the business and customers they support. You can choose between full-time or part-time work, morning and/or evening work.

What we offer:

• Accredited London Living Wage payer
• Starting from £13.15 to £13.65p/h. Paying double on bank holidays.
• Travel contribution
• 28 days holiday pro rata
• Full training induction
• Ongoing training and support
• Flexible working
• Pension scheme
• Smartphone technology so you can do everything at the tap of a finger
• Free uniform