Care Assistant - Norwich

Job description

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

It’s isn’t about previous experience. 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. 

But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants to. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.

You must have:

• Full and valid UK driving licence
• Access to a car
• Right to work in the UK 
• Excellent level of English

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

• £12.30 per hour PLUS paid travel time allowance at £11.50
• PLUS 35p per mile tax-free mileage
• Double pay bank holidays
• 28 days paid annual leave pro rata
• £200 Recommend a Friend Bonus
• Blue Light Card for 100's of high street discounts
• Bonus paid for on completion of probation 
• Free comprehensive training programme
• Free ongoing training
• Paid Induction and shadowing shifts
• Free DBS
• Care recognition
• Full support towards the Care Certificate
• Access to free NVQ level 2&3 and further free certificated courses in specialised subjects of your choice
• Free uniform
• Free PPE

If you would like to find out more about the Care Assistants roles we have available, please click apply and our friendly office team will call you for an informal chat and answer any questions you may have.