Care Assistant - Much Wenlock

Job Title: Care Assistant

Location: Much Wenlock

Contract: Full-Time, Part-Time, Flexible

Salary: £13.45 per hour (weekdays), £13.80 per hour (weekends) + travel time & mileage

Full Driving Licence & access to vehicle is required for this role

**We are unable to accept applications requiring sponsorship to work in the UK **

• UK Driving License & own vehicle required.

• £13.45 per hour (weekdays).

• £13.80 per hour (weekends).

• Paid travel time & paid mileage (40p per mile).

• Enhanced rate of pay at bank holidays (time and a half).

• On call support

• Sleep-in & Waking Nights available.

• Comprehensive induction & training package, paid for at usual hourly rate.

• Hours include earlies, evenings, and alternate weekends (or weekends only if you prefer).

• Paid for DBS.

• Great work/life balance.

• Regular clients, at regular times.

• Fantastic career progression and fully funded Care Certificate.

• Award winning in 'Recruitment, Retention & Recognition' and 'Home Care Worker of the Year' in the West Midlands Great British Care Awards 2023.

• Ongoing, paid for training, including Apprenticeships, and accredited courses such as Mental Health First Aid, Hydration training, Medication, Dysphagia Awareness, Dementia Care, Palliative Care & Parkinson's Care.

• Being part of service that will value you, but also be part of a company to be proud of.

Join us on our mission

Radfield Home Care specialises in personalised, private care for older people in their own home. We’re a national leader in home care innovation and a fast-growing, multi-award winning business.

Our mission is to make ageing a more enjoyable and rewarding experience for all involved. Our care professionals have a huge role to play in making it happen.

Care is amazing. Great quality care can transform a moment, a day, even a relationship. That’s why we believe care should be about making people feel understood, valued and supported. About enabling people to live their best life for as long as possible.

Could you be the Care Assistant in Shrewsbury we’re looking for?

Our amazing care assistants are roll-your-sleeves-up, supportive, positive, honest, warm and committed kind of people. The kind of people who love to help others get the most out of life.

You’ll be caring for older people in their own homes, supporting them in all sorts of ways. From taking them out and about, to doing the weekly shop, from medication support to personal and dementia care, it’s all similar to what you’d expect to provide for your own family and loved ones.

You don’t need any previous experience to join our Radfield Home Care team in Shrewsbury as a Care assistant. You’ll get all the training you need, as well as a comprehensive induction & mentoring programme. You will need the right to work in the UK, a UK driver’s licence, be able to obtain 'Business use' Car Insurance and have access to a vehicle.

We’d also love to hear from you if you’ve got previous care experience in roles such as caregiver, care home assistant, care worker, support worker, healthcare assistant, home care assistant, carer and care home worker.

We’re proud to Care for our Carers

We offer all the things you’d expect. Like flexible working hours, weekend working premium, paid mileage and travel time. And some things you might not expect, like the fact we pay travel at the same rate as care – you won’t find that with all providers. You also get company paid holiday, sick pay scheme and pension entitlement. Extensive training is provided & paid for, as well as free uniform and free DBS check.

We are one of the very few Living Wage Foundation employers in Shrewsbury

Our unique, industry-leading Caring for our CarersTM pledge sets out what you can expect from us as a care assistant at Radfield Home Care Shrewsbury:

• A culture which is welcoming, friendly, supportive and inclusive

• Appreciation and recognition that proudly celebrates the achievements of individuals and teams

• Be rewarded with transparent and fair remuneration for hard work and commitment

• Empowered and encouraged to develop your skills and knowledge

Most importantly, we will invest in your career progression , make sure you have a voice and use technology to enhance the quality of your working life.

That’s what all our care assistants get when they join Radfield Home Care, a forward-looking, family run business that sets the standard for what care can do.

Our Be There promises

To our clients we promise to support them in being present in their own lives, in not having to hide away, step back or feel less than the hero of their own story.

To the families of our clients we promise to support them in being present for their loved ones in the ways that are right for them.

To our Care Professionals, Franchise Partners and office teams around the country we promise to support them in being there for each other, so they can be there for our clients.

We work together to keep these promises and bring them to life every single day. This is what makes Radfield a uniquely powerful community of care.

And a truly amazing community that cares.

Make a difference in your local community

Radfield Home Care Shrewsbury has been a valued organisation in the local community since 2008 when it was started by Dr Hannah MacKechnie & Alex Green, after realising there was a real need for high quality care services in the area.

Hannah and Alex both grew up in Radfield Residential Home, established by their parents in 1982 as a boutique care home in Shrewsbury. Hannah was working as a GP in Shropshire and kept hearing stories of how home care agencies were not delivering and caring for their clients well enough - so with her experience and understanding of good quality care, she, along with her brother, set up Radfield Home Care. It was and continues to be a success, having a fantastic reputation locally for our approach to patient care, along with flexibility and responsiveness we are able to our every client and their relatives.

Interested in joining the team and being part of our journey?