Job Description
The Role of a Care Professional
Care Professionals support clients in the community to live and remain in their own home. Due to the nature of the role in the community you must be willing to travel around Wakefield and commit to working a combination of the following shift times 7am to 2.30pm and 3.45pm – 9.45pm including alternative weekends and bank holidays
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We have an excellent career opportunity for the role of Home Care Assistant to join our amazing Home Instead team Wakefield branch working in the following areas:
1. Ossett
2. Horbury
3. Lupset
To make it fair for all staff, we all work in different areas of Wakefield. This is not a role in just one set area and a degree of flexibility is needed so we can provide excellent continuity of care for the people we care for.
Part-time hours are approximately between 15 and 30 hours per week on average.
You will support clients with:
4. Personal care tasks
5. Medication
6. Meal preparation
7. Light housekeeping
8. Shopping
9. General companionship and wellbeing
10. Taking clients to medical appointments
Qualifications
Requirements:
· Ability to work as part of a team or independently
Access to your own transport with Class 1 Business insurance is essential.
Additional Information
If you want to work for a business who make a real difference to someone’s life and be a pivotal part of our team, we would love to hear from you.
We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This role is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure.