Support Worker - Supported Living
Support Worker / Carer
Harrold, Bedfordshire
£13.25 per hr
Permanent, Part time
Job description
Home Instead is the world's leading provider of non-medical care and companionship services for older people. With minimum visits of one hour, award winning training and an excellent reputation we are immensely proud of the quality of care we provide. We match our Live In Care Professional to our clients based on mutual interests and hobbies to help build bonds of trust and enables us to provide personalised support.
We are looking for people with kind, compassionate hearts who want to make a true difference to the quality of life for our clients to join our team in East Northants as a Live In Care Professional. As a Live In Care Professional, you will live in a client's home and provide a variety of non-medical services to help them keep independent in their own home.
The rate of pay is £13.25 per hour (increasing to £13.80 from 1st April) - you will work 10 hour day with a 2 hour break, but these hours need to work around the client.
The client's lives is a beautiful rural village, based in Harrold, Bedfordshire - he was dianogsed with Parkinson's, 7½ years ago.
He is not great on his feet and uses a wheelchair when outside. He is looking for a live in carer to help assist his wife with the following:- Medication, continence support, meal support, gentle exercise, night support (if needed), companionship support, home help tasks, hydration support.
We are looking for someone who can cook homemade traditional meals with assistance from his wife.
We do not pay travel to this package but we are happy to pick you up from the train station or bus station.
Additional Information
As a Live In Care Professional, you will be provided with 3 meals a day or an allowance from the client, a separate room to stay and access to a TV and WiFi. In addition, we offer comprehensive training and support. This is a one week on an one week off pattern.
If you're looking for work which is extremely rewarding and satisfactory and have a high-degree of flexibility to meet our clients' needs, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us on 01933 678775.We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
This role is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure.
We are unable to offer sponsorship
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Home Instead
Unit 3, Regent Park, 37 Booth Drive, Park Farm Industrial Estate, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 6GR, United Kingdom