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While many Care providers only pay for your contact time, we believe that you should be paid for every minute that you are being a Bluebird Care Ambassador, even if you are sat in your car, so all your travel between customers is paid.
Providing Quality Care
Bluebird Care started as a small family business in 2004, and today we are proud to be one of the largest providers of home care services across the UK. But what makes us different?
We’re committed to keeping people in the comfort of their own home, so we help with anything from everyday tasks around our customers’ homes through to complex care needs. We appreciate that every customer is different, and this is why every day will be different.
Roles and Responsibilities as a Care Assistant
Providing personal care duties
Administering medication
Manual handling, using equipment where required
Promoting customer health and well-being, enabling them to live their life to the full
Your Experience and Suitability for the Care Assistant Role
It’s isn’t about previous experience. We want to ensure our customer receives the very best care and to do that we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.
But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.
You must have:
Full and valid UK driving licence
Access to a car
Right to work in the UK
Excellent level of English
Because We Care About You
We understand that every member of our team has their own family to care for and this is why our role offers the flexibility to work around your own home life. You can choose between full-time or part-time work; all you have to do is simply tell us your availability. Although we try to be flexible where we can, we do require you to be flexible with us too, that’s why we will require you to work some evenings and alternate weekends.
We can’t care for our customers if we don’t take care of our team so to make this possible, we offer:
An excellent rate of £13.00 - £14.00 ph
£20.00 bank holidays
70p travel allowance (combined travel pay and mileage)
Care Friends bonus scheme
28 days holiday pro rata
Full training induction and a 12-week mentor
Ongoing training and support
Flexible working
Pension scheme
Smartphone technology so you can do everything at the tap of a finger
Free uniform
Seniority level Seniority level Entry level
Employment type Employment type Part-time
Job function Job function Other
Industries Hospitals and Health Care
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