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Job Description

The Private Care Company aim to employ and retain the highest quality live-in carers in Brighton & Hove and in return for your skills, experience and commitment we offer excellent working conditions and benefits including:

• Pay from £689/week plus 5 weeks paid holiday
• Enhanced rates on Bank Holidays
• Ongoing work with regular clients
• Fully funded Health and Social Care Diplomas (Levels 3, 4 & 5)
• £150 Training Incentive payment paid on completion of three months employment
• Excellent career progression and training opportunities
• A friendly and supportive management team
• All of our carers are directly employed by us

Job Description:

The Private Care Company is a private, award-winning and fully independent home care agency. We pride ourselves on our excellent reputation to provide high-quality home care services which support our clients to remain independently living in their own homes for as long as possible.

We are currently looking to recruit full-time live-in care assistants to work in the Brighton & Hove area. You will have previous experience working as a live-in care assistant and ideally have relevant qualifications. You will have a caring nature and demonstrate our core values of kindness, compassion and empathy.

Key Accountabilities

• To support clients to live independently and safely in their own homes
• To live-in (including sleeping) the clients home during the assignment period
• To deliver all tasks stated on the care plans to an excellent standard and in accordance with all The Private Care Company’s policies and procedures, best practice, agreed standards, legislative requirements, relevant regulations
• To carry out and assist clients of The Private Care Company with a variety of personal, practical and general care tasks.
• To support client’s food and fluid intake as directed by the care plan, and to ensure documentation of all intake as per training
• To maintain care skills at the required level and undertake such training and development as may from time to time be required
• To communicate with and report any incidents to the care manager as necessary to ensure high standards of care are delivered
• To liaise with other professionals such as district nurses, doctors, pharmacists, occupational therapists etc, to ensure that clients receive a high standard of care

Skills / Experience / Knowledge:

• The Care Certificate (full training provided)
• Multi-skilled care delivery capability
• Live-in care experience
• Good written and oral communication skills
• A minimum of six months previous experience working as a live-in care assistant or in a residential/care/nursing home or home/domiciliary care setting.

Person Profile:

• Kind, caring and patient
• Adaptable
• Able to think on feet
• Able to manage difficult situations
• Reliable
• Able to commit to working a minimum of two weeks at a time
• Able to reliably commute to Brighton & Hove
• Currently residing in the UK

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