Community Care Worker

Who you provide care and support to, the types of services on offer, what the role will include and where the services are based:

Ashfield Care are looking for home care workers to join our lovely team in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. We are looking for people who want to make a difference in their local community and enabling those who are wanting to remain in their own homes. We are looking for people to work mornings (7.00am-2.00pm), afternoons/evenings (4.30pm-9.30/10pm) and weekends (one weekend on-one weekend off is typical). We are looking for caring and reliable people to help our various clients in their own homes. This will include providing personal care, meal preparation, light domestic duties and other adhoc requirements depending on the service user.

What qualities/skills/qualifications would you like from an interested applicant?

You should be able to communicate with a variety of people and treat our service users and their families with dignity and respect. We liken this to treating clients in the same way that you would want someone in your family to be treated.

**Experience as a carer is not necessary as full training will be given but a caring nature is essential. **

What are the benefits of working for your organisation?

We are genuinely committed to providing high quality care for our clients and know that we couldn’t do that without our dedicated team of carers. With this in mind we take it upon ourselves to look after our staff well including:-

• a good rate of pay (enhancements paid at weekend and bank holidays);
• travel time payments;
• company pension;
• free DBS;
• all training provided including manual handling, first aid, food hygiene, dementia, safeguarding and medications;
• access to free L2 and L3 QCF training in Health and Social care;
• friendly group of carers and office staff for support;
• open door policy for concerns and queries in the office (easy off-street parking);
• access to 24/7 on-call support from small on-call team.

We look after our care workers to make sure they receive all the support they need.

Why would an interested applicant want to work for your organisation?

Ashfield Care have been providing care to the people of the Ross-on-Wye area for over 30 years. We are a friendly, family run business that has our service users well-being at heart.

Any other useful information:

Must be able to drive