Care Assistant P/T
Dunfermline area
£12.20 per hour weekdays & £14.85 – £15.82 per hour at weekends, plus 45ppm travel between clients
Experience is preferred but not essential as full training available
We work on a 4/3 rota basis which provides you with great continuity and a fantastic work/life balance, your rota whilst working with us would look like this
07:00 – 14:00
Week 1 – Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday
Week 2 – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Life at Prestige
People are at the very heart of Prestige, and we want to make life better for them. As a Care Assistant, you’ll join us in our continued efforts to make life better for our clients.
Are you interested in making life better for older people but not have any professional experience or do you have previous care experience? Be that as a Care Assistant working in Care homes, as a Homecarer working in the community or as a Support worker?
You are just the person we are looking for here at Prestige Nursing & Care
Our Kirkcaldy branch are currently recruiting for caring and compassionate female carers to join our growing team to support vulnerable people in the community in Dunfermline area, This role is highly rewarding and will fill you will a huge sense of pride. Here is a little more about the role:
We are ideally looking for you to be:
1. Empathetic, compassionate and, warm individual
2. Reliable, committed and flexible
3. Paid UK experience preferred but not essential as training available
4. A female driver with access to your own vehicle is a requirement- Business Insurance req
5. Live locally and be able to commit to the Rota and shifts
Here is just a couple of things you will be doing on a day to day basis
6. Assisting with daily living, domestic duties and personal care
7. Supporting clients in the community
8. Meal preparation and support
What we offer:
9. You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions
10. A variety of shifts to suit your lifestyle.
11. Work with our own clients, no agency work.
12. Pension scheme
13. Blue light card
14. Free PVG update
15. Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
16. Continued professional development to support you & your career
17. Holiday pay
18. Care Friends App Referral Scheme – T&C’s apply
19. Employee Assistance line – available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
20. Support from your local branch team and out of hours support.
If this all sounds like you, please apply now we would love to hear from you
In line with the Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.
All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting Equal Opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.
As a Company we are unable to provide Sponsorship for overseas candidates.
Applicants must have proof of right to work in the UK. It is a requirement to provide an overseas police check dated within the last 3 months of being in the UK if you have lived outside of the UK for longer than a year in the last 5 years.