Care Assistant

Leaf Care Services is a family run care provider specialising in friendly, reliable, and professional care. We support delivering excellent care services, tailored to suit the persons every need. We provide a range of services including home care, 24/7 live in care & dementia care.

Visiting Home Care Assistant- what will you do?

Providing friendly company and emotional support such a chat, shoulder, or cup of tea to personal care tasks of washing, bathing, and continence support. Nutritious meal preparation and light medication assistance. Household duties maintaining a clean and tidy home to more advanced complex care needs with additional training.

Is this me?

• Have basic IT skills- able to use email and apps on mobile devices
• Ability to communicate with other people
• Ability to deal with, and respond to emergency and/or difficult situations
• To be able to provide exceptional standards of care
• Ability to work in a team
• Promote dignified care
• Ensuring health and safety is followed
• Providing a high standard of safe care
• Understand the basics of the data protection act, talking and sharing information, reading, and accessing essential information
• Must have own vehicle & Driving Licence

Visiting Home Care Assistant working pattern: Shift work covering Am, evening and every other weekend as a requirement.

Shift Patterns 7am – 2pm 4pm -10pm or a selection of hours in between to suit the needs of the service users.

Shifts available:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift

*These times are approximations and not exact times. *

up to £12.25 per hour.

·Driving mileage paid

·Free Uniform

·Free Training

·DBS Processing

·13 pay dates a year

·Flexitime

·Holiday Pay

·Eligible to sign up to Blue Light Card

·Care Managers and Co-Ordinators available to support including emergency out of hours teams.

·Multiple career paths and opportunities

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time - Part-time hours: 16-45 per week

Physical setting:

• Homecare

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Norwich: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)