Sevenoaks Salaried Care Assistant (driver)

Salaried Care Assistant

Location: Sevenoaks

Earn from £26,000 (full-time) £16,250 (part-time) | Full expert training provided | Flexible shift patterns to suit your lifestyle

Bluebird Care – Where you change lives

Bluebird Care is the UK’s leading provider of private Care at Home. We are looking for enthusiastic, reliable care assistants to join our thriving agency providing a high-quality and much-needed service to vulnerable people all over Sevenoaks.

We accept V1SA transfers, but you must already be sp0ns0red and based in our area.

We appreciate your need for a healthy work life balance so why not offer us the hours you can manage to see if we have a fit!

This is a salaried fixed contract

What will you be doing?  Our Care Assistants work out in the community helping our customers to live independently in their own homes. You will support customers with a variety of everyday tasks.

You will get thorough training, shadowing a mentor or experienced member of the team, and support while completing The Care Certificate.

Who are we looking for?  People who care deeply about improving the life experience of vulnerable members of the community, who have a caring and compassionate attitude, and who are reliable. We ask that you are 100% committed to helping improve the quality of life of vulnerable adults.

You need to live in or within a reasonable commute of Bromley, and have access to a car that you can use for work.

What are we offering in return?

• A friendly team of dedicated and supportive colleagues
• Competitive rates of basic pay: £13.00  per hour (paid travel time)
• Paid DBS
• Tax-free mileage  paid at 25p per mile
• 4 weeks paid annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays
• A genuine opportunity for career progression in a high-growth sector
• A comprehensive pre-work Training program
• Paid shadowing
• Training is paid at a total of £350, which is paid in two instalments.  The first payment is made in your first salary, the remaining balance is paid upon successful completion of your probation period
• Up to £500 refer-a-friend bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Opt-in private medical insurance scheme
• A route to funded formal qualifications (e.g. L2/L3/L5 Diplomas in Health & Social Care)
• On-going training and support from a friendly office team
• Work with leading edge Smartphone technology: everything is simple and at the tap of a button
• Loyalty bonus

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Referral programme
• Full and part time working hours – you choose.
• Flexible working – hours to suit you and your life.
• Guaranteed hour contracts available

Bluebird Care Sevenoaks  is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

DBS  checking and references will be undertaken in line with government regulations and recruitment best practices.