CAREGiver (Care Assistant / Carer - Full time and Part time)

Home Instead

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London Borough of Lewisham, England, gb on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted June 3, 2025 Last posted February 25, 2026
Job description

Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of non-medical care and companionship services for older people. With minimum visits of one hour, award winning training and an excellent reputation we are immensely proud of the quality of care we provide. We match our CAREGivers to our clients based on mutual interests and hobbies to help build bonds of trust and enables us to provide personalised support.  

We are looking for people with kind, compassionate hearts who want to make a true difference to the quality of life for our clients to join our team in Lewisham and  Southwark as a CAREGiver. As a CAREGiver, you will provide a variety of home services to help them keep independent in their own home - this includes, 

  • Personal Care Duties
  • Administering Medication
  • Manual handling, using equipment where required
  • Promoting health and wellbeing of Clients
  • Flexibly work a range of shift patterns

You do not need any experience or particular qualifications to become a CAREGiver. However, it would be useful to have some experience of working in a care setting or interacting with older people. This could be personal experience of caring for a family member or voluntary experience. You will have a passion for supporting others and pride yourself on delivering an outstanding service. You will be reliable, trustworthy and respectful. You will enjoy building professional friendships and comfortable in spending time in the company of others.

This role is UK based and the right to work in the UK will need to be established as part of the recruitment process

Training and support is provided. Experience working in care would be a benefit. 

As a CAREGiver, you will receive industry leading training, great rates of pay and excellent support and benefits include;

  • Regular hours and clients
  • Introductions / Shadows to all clients
  • Enhanced rate of pay at bank holidays
  • Mileage allowance
  • Flexible working patterns
  • Free accredited training
  • Health Care benefits
  • Excellent pension scheme
  • No 15-minute call company

If you're looking for work which is extremely rewarding and satisfactory and have a high-degree of  flexibility to meet our clients' needs, we would love to hear from you. 

About this role

Summary

Provide personal care, medication assistance, support independence, and promote health for elderly clients.

Job title

CAREGiver (Care Assistant / Carer - Full time and Part time)

Experience level

no experience necessary, beneficial if background in care or voluntary work

Industry

healthcare

Location requirements

Based in London Borough of Lewisham, flexible remote options allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

trustworthyreliablerespectfulcompassionate

Preferred skills

experience in carevoluntary work

Specializations

personal caremedicationmanual handlinghealth and wellbeing
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Unknown location

Hybrid

Unknown location

Remote