Care Assistant - Halifax

Bluebird Care • Part-time • Halifax, GB • £9 - £11 / hour • 3d ago

While many Care providers only pay for your contact time, we pay you for every single minute you work, including travel time! With Bluebird Care you are paid for the whole shift and not by contact time. Shifts are 7am to 2pm and/or 4pm to 10pm.

Providing Quality Care

Bluebird Care started as a small family business in 2004, and today we are proud to be one of the largest providers of home care services across the UK. But what makes us different?

We’re committed to keeping people in the comfort of their own home, so we help with anything from everyday tasks around our customers’ homes through to complex care needs. We appreciate that every customer is different, and this is why every day will be different.

Roles and Responsibilities as a Care Assistant:

Providing personal care duties
Administering medication
Manual handling, using equipment where required
Promoting customer health and well-being, enabling them to live their life to the full

Your Experience and Suitability for the Care Assistant Role

It’s isn’t about previous experience. We want to ensure our customer receives the very best care and to do that, we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring, and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.

But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.

You must have:

Full and valid UK driving licence
Access to a car
Right to work in the UK
Excellent level of English

Because We Care About You

We understand that every member of our team has their own family to care for and this is why our role offers the flexibility to work around your own home life. You can choose between full-time or part-time work; all you have to do is simply tell us your availability. Although we try to be flexible where we can, we do require you to be flexible with us too, that’s why we will require you to work **date/times required**.

We can’t care for our customers if we don’t take care of our team so to make this possible, we offer:

High rate of pay from £57.12-£66.64 per shift. £9.52-£11.00 per hour.
£200 Bonus when you start your first shift!
28 days holiday per year (pro rata)
FREE DBS - subject to you starting your first day as a carer
Flexible working - shifts to suit your availability - F/T, P/T, Temp and Permanent.
Pension Scheme
FREE training
FREE Support and Guidance Mentor for 12 weeks
Great Mileage allowance - 20p per mile*
FREE Uniform
Latest Technology to make your job easier
FREE work mobile phone
Ongoing training and support

But not only that, we take care of our team throughout the year, whether it's your birthday, Christmas, awards, or simply because it’s a Thursday. We’re a family and we’re here to look after you today, tomorrow, and every other day after that.