Job Title: Senior Care Assistant

Location: Camberley

Contract: Full-Time

Salary: £16.00 - £30.00 per hour + optional overtime

Join us on our mission

Radfield Home Care specialises in personalised, private care for older people in their own home. We’re a national leader in home care innovation and a fast-growing, multi-award winning business.

Our mission is to make ageing a more enjoyable and rewarding experience for all involved. Our care professionals have a huge role to play in making it happen.

Care is amazing. Great quality care can transform a moment, a day, even a relationship. That’s why we believe care should be about making people feel understood, valued and supported. About enabling people to live their best life for as long as possible.

Could you be the Senior care assistant in Camberley we’re looking for?

Our amazing senior care assistants are roll-your-sleeves-up, supportive, positive, honest, warm and committed kind of people. The kind of people who love to help others get the most out of life.

As well as caring for older people in their own homes, supporting them in all sorts of ways you will be supporting the care team to ensure that high standards of care practice is maintained through conducting spot checks, competency checks and observations. You will support the Care Manager in operating the on-call system and provide leadership and in-field training & supervision to new members of the care team. 

You will need some previous care experience to join our Radfield Home Care team in Camberley as a Senior care assistant, you will also need a UK driver’s licence, be over the age of 18 and have access to a vehicle.

We’d love to hear from you if you’ve got previous care experience in roles such as Senior care assistant, caregiver, care home assistant, care worker, support worker, healthcare assistant, home care assistant, carer and care home worker.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The role requires contact with vulnerable clients and therefore all roles will be subject to enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references.

Pay and Working Hours:

We are a Living Wage Foundation employer.

This position is a ‘Guaranteed Hours’ contract at 37.5hrs per week. The hourly pay is as follows:

Monday to Friday: £16.00

Saturday / Sunday £19.00

(Bank holidays: Monday to Friday £27.00 Saturday / Sunday £30.00)

The hours of work are from 7.00am to 3.00pm five days a week, on a two-week rotation:

• Monday to Friday (week 1)
• Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday (week 2)

There is an expectation to work on public/bank holidays, with an additional salary payment of £60.00 for each bank/public holiday worked.

You may wish to work on additional days as overtime, this would be accommodated upon request. 

Our employees benefit from:

• Company laptop
• Paid mileage allowance
• 28 days paid holidays per year
• Full training provided (Systems and Senior Care Worker training)
• FREE DBS
• Opportunities to study for a recognised qualification
• Company pension scheme
• Ongoing support from Supervisory and Management team

Daily Duties:

• Personal care
• Liaise with local practitioners to source equipment or treatment for our clients where needed
• Visiting clients or representatives to review the effectiveness of the current care provision
• Support and companionship
• Making and receiving telephone calls to clients and care staff
• Medication
• Domestic duties
• Taking clients out and about
• Provide feedback to less experienced members of the care team around best practice

We’re proud to Care for our Carers 

We are one of the very few Living Wage Foundation employers in Camberley

Our unique, industry-leading Caring for our Carers^TM pledge sets out what you can expect from us as a care assistant at Radfield Home Care Camberley, Farnborough & Fleet:

• A culture which is welcoming, friendly, supportive and inclusive
• Appreciation and recognition that proudly celebrates the achievements of individuals and teams
• Be rewarded with transparent and fair remuneration for hard work and commitment
• Empowered and encouraged to develop your skills and knowledge 

Most importantly, we will invest in your career progression, make sure you have a voice and use technology to enhance the quality of your working life.

That’s what all our team get when they join Radfield Home Care, an innovative forward thinking business that sets the standard for what care can do.

Interested in joining the team?