Female Home Care Worker (Bank Work)

At **Complete Community Home Care Ltd, **we believe people come first and our services provide the best level of care available. We believe in providing care that allows people to remain independent and to lead their lives with complete comfort surrounded by their family and friends. We are currently looking for **Female** **Home Support Assistants (Bank Work)** to join our team to help us make a real difference to our service user's lives in around **Ashington**, **Bedlington**, **Blyth**, **Cramlington**, **Lynemouth**, **Morpeth**, **Newbiggin-by-the-sea**, **Pegswood**, **Seaton Delaval** & **Swarland**. **The Role**: As a **Home Support Assistant**, you will provide crucial care and support in our service users homes to assist in all aspects of their daily life, such as personal care, medication support, meal preparation, companionship, accompanying the customer shopping or on outings and domestic support. **Full-time or Part-time** **Days/Hours of Work**: **Long Week: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday & Sunday** **Short Week: Wednesday, Thursday & Friday** **Call times are between 7am-9pm** **Unfortunately, we are not providing sponsorship at the moment.** If you’d like to join us, you’ll need to have: - **To be considered for this role you must have a full UK driving licence and your own car.**: - **Have the right to work or currently live in the UK.**: - Comply with all policies and procedures - A caring and supportive nature - Strong communication skills - The ability to work well in a team - No experience is necessary as full training is provided. - Understand the importance of maintaining professional boundaries - Able to work under pressure and deal with challenging behaviours **Benefits & Rewards**: **Rates of pay £12phr - £13phr**. **Enhanced rate of pay for picking up extra shifts on the weekends.** **Paid Travel Time.** **Paid mileage between calls (45p per mile).** **Pension scheme.** **Paid annual leave.** **Career pathway and progression.** **Access to health and social care qualifications.** **Organised social events.** **Yearly service awards and bonuses.** **Free uniform, PPE, and DBS** **Due to the nature of the role, Complete Community Home Care can only consider applicants aged 18 years and above, this is an occupational requirement and therefore is exempt from schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.** **Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract **Salary**: £12.00-£13.00 per hour **Benefits**: - Company pension Day range: - Every weekend - Monday to Friday - Weekends only Physical setting: - Homecare Shift: - 10 hour shift - 12 hour shift - 8 hour shift - Day shift - Night shift Application question(s): - Do you have access to your own vehicle for business use? (THIS IS A REQUIREMENT) Licence/Certification: - UK Drivers Licence (required) Work authorisation: - United Kingdom (required) Work Location: On the road

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