Community Care Assistant

Location: Halesworth, Beccles, Bungay, Southwold and surrounding areas
Hours: Full Time, Zero Hours
Pay: £13.85 per hour + enhancements and mileage

About Prestige Nursing and Care Halesworth
At Prestige Nursing and Care we pride ourselves on our ability to provide specialist Homecare Services for individuals of all ages living within their own homes. We are committed to ensuring each individual receives a person centred, professional service through our local teams of professional careers and registered nurses. Prestige Nursing and Care has provided home care for over 80 years, and we have over 30 local offices in England and Scotland. Our aim is to lead the care industry by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services to our clients.

The purpose of this role is to ensure the highest level of care, support and wellbeing is delivered to our clients by meeting physical, health, social and emotional needs (in line with the care plan) and adhering to Prestige Nursing and Care policies, procedures and values at all times.

We are looking for:

• Excellent communication skills
• A full UK driver's licence
• You have the right to work in the UK (we do not offer any form of sponsorship)

What we offer:

• You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts
• The flexibility of either a zero-hour contract or contracted hours, whichever suits your lifestyle the most
• Work with our own clients, no agency work
• Pension scheme
• Blue light card
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
• Continued professional development to support you and your career
• Paid time off to volunteer and give back to the charities and causes that matter to you
• Holiday pay
• Refer a friend scheme
• Employee Assistance line, available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
• Support from your local branch team and out of hours support

Want to find out how you can make life better for yourself and the people you care for? Apply today.

In line with CQC and Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake enhanced DBS/PVG, right to work, reference and employment history checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.

As a private provider of home care in the UK, Prestige Nursing and Care is not affiliated to the NHS, as such we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of any employment visa at this time. All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing and Care colleagues are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.

We reserve the right to close this position early.