URGENT Weekend Work - Care Professionals Required (Drivers Only)

Are you looking for a role with meaning? If you would like to earn extra income or are available to work weekends, 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 Colchester as a Care Professionals. As a Care Professional, you will provide a variety of non-medical services to help them keep independent in their own home.

No qualifications required, full training is provided to achieve the care certificate. 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. 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.

As a Care Professional, you will receive industry leading training, great rates of pay, pension contributions, paid travel and waiting time, a blue light card that offers major retailer discounts, £200 bonus for successful care professional referrals, high street discount vouchers through the Home Instead app, and excellent support.

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. Please click on 'I'm Interested' or alternatively, contact Angela Warner on 01206 848427, or by email angela.warner@homeinstead.co.uk

We encourage applications from all sections of the community as we want to reflect the community in which we work. Home Instead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This role is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure and references. Drivers essential due to the nature of the role.

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

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