Respite Care Assistant

Job Description

We are looking for Respite Care Assistants to join our team and help us make a difference to the lives of vulnerable people, providing support to live independently in their own homes around your local area and community.

A typical day in the life of a Respite Care Assistant will help support our customers in a variety of ways depending on their needs, this will be sitting calls allowing the main carer to have a break, calls will be between 1 to 6 hours long.

We are looking for respite carers in the Ferndown, Ringwood and Verwood area 

The hours will be either Tuesday to Saturday or Monday to Friday depending on the service user's needs, the role would suit someone who is looking for school or part time hours, you do not need experience as this will be given and would suit a non driver.

• Earn up to £11.60 per hour as a Home Care Assistant
• Full time & part-time shifts available
• Overtime available 
• Supportive & Established management
• Lots of further career opportunities

Agincare offer fantastic benefits;

• £500 Welcome Bonus * Subject to T&Cs
• Paid two-day Induction 
• Paid upfront DBS
• Fast Track Job Offers
• Refer a friend bonus - £250

We also offer other wonderful benefits for all our staff;

• Paid Mileage
• Access to Blue Light Membership
• Fully Funded Continuous Professional Development
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) available to all our employees 
• Long Service Award
• Recognition Awards
• Paid Annual Leave
• Internal competitions to win prizes e.g. holidays, extra annual leave

About you

You don’t need to have previous experience or qualifications in care, what’s important is you are passionate and motivated and you want to help in your community. If you want Job Satisfaction and a job where every day is different, our Respite Care Assistant role could be the perfect opportunity for you.

We can offer you fully-funded training and career development opportunities for all regardless of experience in social care (training programmes up to and including Level 5).

About Agincare

We’ve been voted as the top care company to work for by Indeed, and our team agree – we’re proud that we average at 4/5* on employee reviews.

We’re a family-run business caring for people since 1986, this year we’re celebrating 35 years! With over 3,500 team members, we’re one of the UK’s largest care providers and are continuing to grow. With over 50 locations across our care homes, home care branches and live-in offices – there really is something for everyone.

Equal opportunities are important to us at Agincare and we welcome applications from all