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Home Care Assistants

Avenue Care Services Ltd.

Falkirk

Hybrid

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

A home care services company in Falkirk is seeking passionate and dedicated individuals to join their team as Home Care Assistants. The role involves visiting service users in the community to assist with daily needs including personal care and medication prompts. Successful candidates will enjoy flexible working hours and earn £15.75 per hour. Full training and support will be provided.

Benefits

Company pension scheme

£100 bonus - Refer a friend

Free uniform and PPE provided

Employee mentoring programme

Health & wellbeing programme

Qualifications

Full valid driving license + access to your own vehicle.
Compassion and care towards others.

Responsibilities

Assist service users with daily needs including personal care and medication prompts.
Support service users with appointments and social engagements.

Skills

Compassion towards others

Full valid driving license

Home Care Assistants Falkirk Full time £15.75 per Hour

Grangemouth, Falkirk, Larbert, Denny

We are seeking passionate and dedicated individuals to join our Care at home service in Falkirk. This role includes attending service user’s homes in the community and assisting them with their daily needs.

Duties

Personal Care Medication prompt Meal Preps Building trusting relationships Well-being check's

Benefits

1 week induction period. (3 classroom days & 2 shadow shifts)
Company pension scheme
£100 bonus - Refer a friend.
Free uniform and PPE provided.
Employee mentoring programme
Health & wellbeing programme for yourself.

Flexibility

Start to Finish Pay - £14.75 (unqualified) £15.75 (Qualified – SVQ2)

25p per mile

7am - 2pm - 4pm - 10/10.30pm

You will work a mixture of both on a 2-week rolling Rota. (One weekend on one off)

Full-time - 30hrs/pw

Part-Time - 12,18, 24hrs/pw (hours per week)

Working individually and with other care staff on double-up clients, supported by office staff and on-call service.

Requirements

Full valid driving license + access to your own vehicle.

️Compassion and care towards others.

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1: What will my responsibilities be on a day-to-day basis?

As a home carer with Avenue you’ll be visiting our service users within your local area and typically assisting them with the following tasks; Medical administration prompts, personal care, meal preparation and housework, mobility requests – assisting service users mobility with the use of hoists and aids typically transferring them from beds and chairs to bathrooms and vice versa. Avenue carers also support our service users with appointments and social engagements as well as assisting with palliative/end of life care.

2: Will I be working by myself or with other care staff?

Runs and rota’s differ in each of our areas depending on the service users requirements and we do facilitate individual care runs as well as full double up runs in all areas. Typically there may be one or two “double-up” visits per shift.

3: What are the shift times and can Avenue work around other jobs/commitments?

Typically our morning shift starts at 7am and finishes at 2pm and our afternoon/back shift starts at 4pm and finishes at 10.30pm. New staff are offered a contract that is based on their weekly availability so that you know when you’ll be working on a weekly basis, there is always the opportunity to pick-up extra shifts should that be desired.

4: Do I have to pay for any equipment or PPE for the roles?

No, all our staff are equipped with a uniform/rucksack which contains unique badge identification and also all the necessary PPR required for the role. Additional PPE can be collected FOC from our localised offices.

5: What happens when the office closes at 5pm and at the weekends?

Avenue operate a 24/7 emergency on-call service whereby an experienced member of our care management team is always a phone call away to support and queries that staff need answered. This service is activated midweek 5pm to 8.30am and all weekend should you need any assistance or re-assurance.

Yes, we ask all new members of staff to complete this. Our training managers cater for new staff that have had no care experience and also qualified staff that have a history of experience in social/home care.

7: What rotas do you have?

Our carers typically work on a two week fixed rota which means working every second weekend. Avenue support Full-time, Part-time and sessional contracts for our staff.

8: Where will I be working?

Our carers work across the East of Scotland in localised areas. Avenue commit to settling new care staff into the same rota/runs for a minimum of two months and we can also support carer relocations.

9: Do you pay for travel?

No, our carers pay for their own travel and we can support annual mileage claims to HMRC.

10: How soon can I start?

All our carers have to complete our induction training and get signed off by our recruitment team - completing necessary background and reference checks as well as award of a PVG from disclosure Scotland

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