Home Care Assistant

Location: Crawley & Reigate (West Sussex), Old Brighton Road South, Crawley, RH11 0PR, United Kingdom
Remote status: Hybrid
Department: Care Operations

Home Care Assistant
We are looking for female care assistants who have a driving license and their own car.

As a Care Professional, you will provide high-quality care and companionship to people in their own homes, helping them maintain their independence, dignity, and quality of life. Duties may include personal care, medication support, meal preparation, light housekeeping, companionship, and assisting with daily activities.

You will build meaningful, professional relationships with clients while delivering person-centred care tailored to their individual needs.

Pay & Hours
We pay you for your time with the client, your time travelling between clients and your mileage. Your travel time and mileage is calculated real time from google so is a true reflection of your time.

• £13.50 per hour weekdays and training & £14.50 per hour weekends with bank holiday enhancements
• 45p per mile

Working Patterns

• Our visiting care service operates from 7:00am to 10:00pm
• Zero Hour and Part Time contracts available
• We require alternate weekend availability or every Saturday or every Sunday for contracted hours

Induction and Training
You will complete a 12 week induction and onboarding programme giving you all the support you need to confidently and safely provide care to our clients. This will include:

• an introduction to Radfield Home Care, our values, the team and our #BeThere moments
• how to maintain professional boundaries, identify safeguarding concerns, ensuring equality and diversity through person centred care
• learning how to safely support people to move with equipment keeping yourself protected at all time.
• learning how to deliver basic life support, safely administer medications and more
• eLearning, face to face training and practical support to enable you to confidently provide great care

About the role
We are a leading Home Care Provider who pays travel time, mileage and a competitive rate of pay. In addition you will get full training and a dedicated mentor in your first 12 weeks.

We welcome your application even if you don’t meet all of the criteria as we will provide you with all the necessary training to thrive in the role.

We believe that by treating our care staff as a trusted family we can empower them to treat our clients with the same warmth and respect.

In your role you will:

• provide care in the community for people who need assistance to live independently within their own homes
• provide a range of support with personal care
• support with household tasks, medication administration and companionship

We encourage people from different sectors to apply as no experience is necessary and full training is provided.

Great Care Professionals come from all walks of life. Whether you've worked from home, in retail, sales, hospitality, education, childcare, or as a delivery driver, your experience could be invaluable. If you're caring by nature and passionate about making a difference, we'd love to welcome you to our team.

Whilst you do not need to have the experience to apply, Radfield Home Care are also very interested in speaking with candidates with previous care experience in roles such as care assistant, support worker, healthcare assistant, carer and those with care home background.

We are booking interviews so please APPLY NOW as we'd love to meet you.

Experience:

• Home Care: 1 year (preferred)

Language:

• Fluent spoken and written English (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence and your own car (required)
• Right to Work in the UK WITHOUT sponsorship (required)
• Level 2 or 3 NVQ in Social Care or Care Certificate (preferred)