Weekend Home Care Assistant - Cheltenham

Location: - Cheltenham - (Bishops Cleeve, Charlton Kings, Prestbury, Swindon Village, Wymansbrook, St Pauls, Leckhampton, Springbank, Pittville)

Weekend Hours available: - Between 07:00am – 22:00pm

Hourly wage: - £13.55 (40p per mile)

Our story

We are a family-owned domiciliary care company based in the centre of Cheltenham, covering areas in and around Cheltenham and the North Cotswolds.

At Windrush Care, we aim to make it as simple for those families and individuals that want to make their own choices for care at home and to provide the real personalised and bespoke alternative to residential care, keeping people in their own homes with our support, for as long as possible.

And this ability to provide a continued and successful service, rests upon the quality of our care staff along with the support they receive from our excellent office team – who also do care calls themselves. We believe we should never ask our carers to do something we aren’t willing to do ourselves.

Email – careers@windrushcare.co.uk or alternatively matt@windrushcare.co.uk

Phone – (01242) 226020 to speak to one of our office team.

What’s actually involved as a home care assistant at Windrush Care?

• Companionship visits

• Assistance with personal care tasks

• Overseeing medication and ensuring our clients are safe with their medication

• Assisting with housework, gardening or even walking the dog!

• Preparing and cooking meals and drinks

• Helping with errands such as food shopping, posting letters or picking up prescriptions.

Why work for Windrush Care?

• Full face to face training sessions teaching mandatory Medication, Moving and Handling and Emergency First Aid at Work training.
• Online training of the Care Certificate (learn at your own speed in the comfort of your armchair)

• All of our induction and update training is provided at no cost to you.

• Opportunity to shadow our existing staff – allowing you to familiarise yourself with our clients and our company.

• Clear and concise rotas – with no unexpected amendments or demands on your availability.

• A genuinely supportive management team who are with you from first contact and continuing through your Windrush Care Journey, to going out and being an independent carer for our clients – they are always at hand, even if it’s just for a chat.

Benefits in working at Windrush Care?

• Paid mileage of 40p per mile from home to your first call and onwards throughout your day.

• Paid holidays and Enhanced bank holiday rates

• Fortnightly pay

• Incentive schemes including Employee of the month, refer a candidate and length of service award.

• Regular shift patterns

• Flexible working hours

• Supportive office team – open door policy.

• 3 C’s Quarterly staff meetings (Coffee, Cake and Chat)

• Job security – some of our carers have been with us for over 5 years.

• Free uniform

• Free DBS

• Festive company events – who doesn’t like a party?
• After 12 months continued employment - employees are given access to a multitude of online training programmes to support personal development - all at no cost to yourself and access to certificates.

What we are looking for in our home care assistants?

• Previous experience in a similar role would be beneficial, but not essential as full training, shadowing and support will be given to new carers. (Many of our best carers were completely new to the sector)

• Excellent communication skills are essential as you will most likely be working 1:1 with our clients within the community.

• A genuine desire to help others and keep our clients independent and well cared for.

The ideal candidate

• Right to work in the UK

• Driving license and access to vehicle (Preferred)

• On update DBS system or would need you to complete a new DBS check

• Reliable and honest

• To be resident in and around Gloucestershire

**UK applicants only** - Unfortunately, we are unable at this time to offer sponsorship to candidates applying from outside the United Kingdom.