Rapid Response Night Care Worker - Excellent Rates of Pay

We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible, and reliable individuals to join our stand-by Rapid Response Night Sitting Service for Norfolk.

Your base is your own home, and you are available to be deployed between 9pm – 7am, you will only leave your home when you get a call out. Sometimes you don’t get a call out all night!

As this service covers the whole of Norfolk you could be called to attend night sit visits anywhere in Norfolk, but don’t worry all your mileage will be paid @ 42p per mile.

It will be a 10 hour shift starting at 9pm and finishing at 7am on call from your own home. 

You would be responsible for working directly with customers to provide a skilled and sensitive service to include personal assistance, emotional and physical care and maintaining and promoting independence.

The visits are varied, and no two days will be the same. Your duties will include:

Responsibilities will include:

• Personal care, which includes washing, dressing, eating and assisting with personal hygiene, meal preparation.
• Administration of medication and other more complex interventions, depending on the level of your training and the customer’s needs.
• Completion of customer care logs.

The benefits of working with our caring and committed teams are:

• Paid mileage
• Company Mobile Phone
• Stay safe App ( where your safety is monitored by a call centre)
• Full PPE provided
• Personal Alarm
• Free Uniform
• We will pay for your DBS check
• Paid Holiday
• Career progression opportunities
• Fully paid training programme
• Pension Scheme
• Flexible Hours
• 1:1 Mentoring & Coaching

You must have:

• A minimum 1 year’s care experience within the community or care home setting
• Full driving licence and own transport with Business insurance
• Flexibility and adaptability to visit customers in a wide geographical area 

It is essential that you have previous experience in the Care industry, and you are a driver with clean UK driving licence.

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Please note

1. If you are new to care, you may like to complete the Question of Care on the Skills for Care website or research Adult Social Care on YouTube before applying. This will introduce you to care and what it means to support people.
2. Please note the closing date for this job vacancy; you will be contacted by email or text with the outcome of your application or, in the absence of an email address or mobile number, you will be written to.
3. You will be expected to complete a comprehensive induction and training programme.
4. If your application is successful and a conditional job offer is made you will expected to pay for your initial DBS check (enhanced version for vulnerable adults) and once you have received your reference number, you will be expected to sign up to the online DBS Update Service and will be responsible for the annual fee.