Vacancy
Live-in Care Assistant - Swindon
- Location: Swindon
- Contract type: Live-in Care Assistant
- Salary details: £680 - £750 per week - Paid Holiday, Loyalty Scheme Available, Pension Scheme
We are seeking Live In Carers to join our amazing team of Healthcare professionals. Join our team today!
Pay Rates - £680 - £750 per week (£97.14 to £107.14 per day)
As a Live-In Carer you will have the privilege of living with our customers to provide the very best care.You are there to be a companion, but also to help them remain as independent as possible in their own home and cherish all the memories they’ve made there. You will work up to 8 hours per day with the customer providing the required care and support whilst also sleeping in the premises overnight to be on hand if required.
Benefits:
- Enhanced rates for Bank Holidays
- If you use your own vehicle for customer use, you will be entitled to 30p per mile
- Refer a friend bonus scheme - up to £200 each time
- NHS Healthcare Scheme
- Paid Holiday on a pro rata basis
- 3 meals a day included
- You will also have a separate room to stay and access to a TV and WIFI.
- Blue light card, offering store discounts at retailers e.g., clothing, Halfords as well as a discount on days out to Chessington/Thorpe Park/Alton Towers etc
- Opportunities for career development, both out in the field and office-based
- Support from our Mental Health Champions
- You will have regular contact with your supervisor along with access to our career pathway
- Scheduled daily and weekly breaks which you can spend as you wish in or outside of the customer’s home
- A clearly defined schedule of working time vs downtime during each day Loyalty Scheme available via Care Friends App.
To begin with you will live with our customers for 3 weeks on and one week off but once you’re embedded into your role, you will be able to stay for a maximum of 8 working weeks at a time. Previous experience is a bonus but not a requirement. Live-in Carers are matched to our customers to ensure our customers and you get along.
You must have:
- Right to work in the UK
- Excellent level of English.
- It is desirable to have a driving licence and your own vehicle but not essential.
Daily duties will include, 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.
Apply today and we will be in touch shortly!
Section 7(2b) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 applies that there is a genuine occupational requirement for female staff for these positions.
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