Care Assistant

Care Assistant

Kirkcaldy /Burntisland

£12.20 per hour weekdays & £14.85 - £15.82 per hour at weekends, plus 45ppm travel allowance

Experience is preferred for this role

Are you interested in making life better for older people but not have any professional experience or do you have previous care experience? Be that as a Care Assistant working in Care homes, as a Homecarer working in the community or as a Support worker?

You are just the person we are looking for here at Prestige Nursing & Care

Our Kirkcaldy branch are currently recruiting for caring and compassionate full time female carers to join our growing team to support vulnerable people in the community. This role is highly rewarding and will fill you will a huge sense of pride. Here is a little more about the role:

We work on a 4/3 rota basis which provides you with great continuity and a fantastic work/life balance, your rota whilst working with us would look like this:

Our shifts are 7am -2pm & 4pm-10pm

Week 1 - Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday

Week 2 - Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

We are ideally looking for you to be:

• Empathetic, compassionate and, warm individual
• Reliable, committed and flexible
• Previous Care experience preferred
• 3 months UK experience
• Must live locally and be able to commit to the rota
• A female driver with access to your own vehicle is a requirement- Business Insurance req

Here is just a couple of things you will be doing on a day to day basis

• Assisting with daily living, domestic duties and personal care
• Supporting clients in the community
• Meal preparation and support

If this all sounds like you, please apply now we would love to hear from you

In line with the Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.

You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC.

All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting Equal Opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.

As a Company we are unable to provide Sponsorship for overseas candidates.

Applicants must have proof of right to work in the UK. It is a requirement to provide an overseas police check dated within the last 3 months of being in the UK if you have lived outside of the UK for longer than a year in the last 5 years.

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Prestige Nursing & Care reserve the right to close this role early.

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