Hourly rate: £12.00
Domiciliary Care Worker
Covering the Lawrence Weston and Shirehampton area!
A UK Driving License or equivalent and access to a car is essential for this role!
Hourly rate of £12.00 an hour, plus 35p a mile care mileage and great company benefits.
Due to an increase in hours required, we are looking for Care Workers to join our team!
This is a great opportunity to join our friendly and highly professional team, we respect hard work and dedication towards the local community in Bristol.
We are one of the UK’s leading housing and care providers offering solutions to both the private and public sectors with over 5,500 employees.
Mears Group’s vision is to make a positive difference to the people we serve by improving homes, improving communities, and improving lives.
About the Role:
Care Workers really make a difference to the lives of our service users, offering a highly personal service you will be helping to enable people to live as independently as possible, by providing the best standards of care and support.
Assisting with all elements of personal care, to ensure service users are supported in being as independent as possible in preparation for their day ahead
Assisting service users with getting washed and dressed, preparing meals
Prompting and assistance with taking medication
Light household tasks
Light cleaning
Gardening if required and able to
Budgeting for finance
Taking them shopping
Day trips to the beach
Offering companionship and helping build service users' confidence and independence
All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK. Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.
Mears Benefits
DBS check
Refer a friend scheme (entitlement up to £1000)
Incentive payments made, once training and probationary periods have been completed
Pension scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Share saver scheme
Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Alton Towers, Drayton Manor where your entrance and lunch will be paid for.
Care Worker of the Month Award
Mears Connect Discounts – include discounts and money back on high street shops, holidays, groceries, and lots more
Paid volunteering leave
Offering a range of shifts to balance home and work life.
We are Mears - Proud to be voted one of the Top 25 Best Big Companies to work for in the Sunday Times.
Role Criteria:
Successful candidates must be willing to work alternate weekends
No previous experience is required, full training will be provided.
Practical subjects such as cooking and household responsibilities
Personal care
Medication Administration
Day trips
A Driving License
Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:
Vickie Rudge (Vickie.Rudge@mearsgroup.co.uk)
Mears Group is a disability confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset. We hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone as individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual makeup.
To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21, have held your license for over 3 months, and have less than 9 points.
Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant DBS/Security checks before commencement of employment.
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