Care Professional in New Barn/ Longfield/ Hartley/ Meopham

Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of non-medical care, including, personal care, house-help and companionship services for older people. We provide personalised support with award winning training and minimum visits of one hour, matching our CARE Professional to our clients based on mutual interests and hobbies to help build bonds of trust, and ensure regularity to maintain the continuity and develop understanding. We are immensely proud of the quality of care we provide.

• Salary £13 - £13.50 per hour
• 35p per mile for fuel
• Double pay for Bank Holidays
• Full training and client shadowing provided
• Offers are subject to completed training, enhanced DBS and references
• Blue Light Card discounts

As a CARE Professional at Shoreham, Petts Wood & Longfield, you will travel to the house of the clients and provide a range of care services to enable them to continue to live independently in their own homes. At HI, we provide non-medical services (personal care, house-help and companionship services) and are looking for someone with flexible working hours to join our team. We are looking for people with kind, compassionate hearts who want to make a true difference to the quality of life for our clients. Some necessary requirements would also include weekend availability and a full UK driving license. This could be assisting them with:

1. morning routines when they get up supporting with personal care such as bathing
2. evening routines before they go to bed
3. helping the clients with jobs around the home
4. cooking them meals 
5. going shopping or to appointments
6. taking the client to day care centres or the church 
7. and encouraging interests and hobbies
8. or just providing them with company!

You do not need any experience or particular qualifications to become a CARE Professional. However, it would be useful to have some experience of working in a care setting or interacting with older people. Possible experience for the role would include:

• A  personal experience of caring for a family member or voluntary experience. 
• Passion for supporting others and pride yourself on delivering an outstanding service. 
• Reliable, trustworthy and respectful. 
• Enjoying building professional friendships and comfortable in spending time in the company of others.

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