Home Care Assistant - Bournemouth

Reference:

VAC-17

Salary:

£7 to £9 Per Hour

Town/City:

Bournemouth

Contract Type:

Permanent

Benefits of a Homecare Assistant:

  • Basic rate is £7:80 and £9:80 at weekends. 
  • 33 days Holiday.
  • Mobile Phone 
  • Career progression 
  • Fully paid for Diploma.

The Job
As a Home Care Assistant you will enable service users to remain independent and living in their own homes by ensuring that all their daily living needs are met.
 
A Successful Homecare Assistant will need: 

  • To assist services users with personal care tasks such as washing, dressing, bathing, shaving, hair washing and oral hygiene
  • To assist service users with toileting and management of continence, including the emptying of commodes and the use of incontinence aids
  • To assist service users with transfers using mobility aids (full training will be given and updated)
  • To assist service users with daily tasks such as domestic cleaning and shopping.
  • To assist service users with meal planning, preparation and cooking.  Where necessary assist service users with eating.
  • To provide a companionship sitting service while family and other live-in carer have respite breaks.

**Must have own car**

  • We do not ask for any experience as a home care assistant because full training is given and paid for in full from day 1.
  • Uniform is fully paid for
  • Travel is paid for
  • Any future training courses will be paid for