Health Care Assistant
Edinburgh
£12.44 per hour with additional holiday pay accrual, plus e very second weekend is guaranteed time off.
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.
Prestige Nursing & Care has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 30 local offices in England and Scotland. We look after a variety of clients in their own homes and we also work with local care homes, nursing homes and the NHS.
Who will you be helping to make life better for?
Prestige Nursing & Care Edinburgh are seeking dedicated and passionate Health Care Assistant to join our care and support team. You will work delivering person centred, specialised care to our clients in their own homes on a one-to-one basis. This will enable you to maintain a clinical and supportive overview of your client.
We are looking for Professional Carers who can build positive relationships with a range of clients and their families as we understand the importance that we play in their lives.
What we offer:
1. You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts.
2. A variety of shifts to suit your lifestyle.
3. Work with our own clients, no agency work.
4. Pension scheme
5. Blue light card
6. Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes
7. Continued professional development to support you & your career
8. Holiday pay
9. Care Friends App Referral Scheme – T&C’s apply
10. Employee Assistance line – available 24/7 and fully confidential for our staff
11. Support from your local branch team and out of hours support.
12. PVG cost covered by company
The Role
13. Deliver personal care to supported individuals.
14. Work as part of a team or independently to supported individuals in their own homes.
15. Medication management
16. Social visits.
17. Meal support
We’re looking for:
18. Excellent communication skills
19. A driver’s licence is an advantage but not a requirement
20. Good professional and personal references
If you are a driver, you will receive 45p per mile to cover mileage costs.
In line with 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.