Home Care Support Worker - Car / Bike / Moped Drivers

Contracted provider for West Sussex County Council.

Home Care Support Workers required in the Worthing, Sompting, Billingshurst, Shoreham, Littlehampton, Lancing and surrounding areas to work various shifts.

They can provide you:

- £8ph Mon to Fri - £9ph weekends
- paid travel time between calls
- paid mileage @£0.45p/mile
- Full or part time positions
- Guaranteed Contracted hours
- 28 Paid Holidays pro rata
- Enhanced pay on bank holidays
- Uniform
- Mobile phone
- Full training
- Company car after three years
- NVQ after six months
- Full training and support continually through your employment

Also required Bank (casual) Support Workers
-£10ph
-£0.45p per mile between calls
-paid travel time between calls
-paid holiday
-uniform
-training
(no guaranteed hours for bank workers)

Person specifications:
- Caring personality
- Reliability
- Able to work every other weekend
- Punctuality
- Initiative
- CAR DRIVER (unless applying for live-in care)

Responsibilities:
- To assist service users who need help with getting up in the morning, dressing, undressing, washing, bathing and the toilet.
- To help service users with mobility problems and other physical disabilities, including incontinence and help in use and care of aids and personal equipment.
- To care for service users who are temporarily sick and needing, for example bed nursing, help with feeding etc.
- To help care for service users who are dying.
- To help in the promotion of mental and physical activity of service users through talking with them, taking them out, shopping etc. when directed in their individual care plan.
- To make and change beds; tidy rooms; light cleaning and empty commodes, catheter bags and stoma bags.
- To inspect, launder and mend service users clothing.
- To prepare light meals, wash up and clear kitchen area.
- To administer medication with the service users consent and following the strict guidelines of their Medication Policy.
- To read and write reports, care plans, and take part in staff and service users meetings and in training activities as directed.
- To perform such other duties as may reasonably be required.

This position is subject to DBS checks

They are an equal opportunities employer

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