What is a Community Care Worker?
As a Community Care Worker, you will be supporting adults within our Community (Walker Byker, Jesmond, Heaton and Wallsend) help to live independently in their own homes for as long as possible. Each service user requires different support and day to day you could be helping with tasks such as:
- Personal Care
- Food Preparation
- Medication administration
- Shopping and domestic support
- Support to attend appointments or social and physical activities
Are you what we are looking for?
To become a Care Worker with St Anthony’s, experience is not required. We will provide you with full training.
However, you do need to have the right values. To be a good Care Worker you should be able to demonstrate that you are caring, patient, kind, trustworthy and committed to working with vulnerable adults. You also need to be punctual, dependable and have excellent communication skills.
A career in care is very rewarding and allows you to make a difference to someone's life everyday.
Hours of work
Our Home Care service runs 7 days a week, 365 days a year from 7.00am to 11.00pm. Our busy periods are from 7am-1pm and 3pm-9pm.
We are looking for Care Workers who can work between these hours and we offer guaranteed hours contracts for both full time and part time positions.
Alternate weekend working is required.
Give us a call on 0191 234 5775, option 4 to discuss your availability and the working days and hours available.
Job details:
- £13.45 per hour
- Enhanced bank holiday pay
- Annual uniform allowance
- Paid Travel Time & Travel Costs reimbursed
- Paid 3 week mandatory induction training and paid ongoing training for continuing professional development.
- Mileage rates (per mile) 55p for cars, 20p for electric bikes and 10p for pedal bikes.
- Eligibility for a Blue Light retail discount card.
About us
St Anthony of Padua Community Association is a local charity and registered company which was formally established in 1986 serving the community of the East End of Newcastle.
We are a not for profit organisation and are led by a Board of committed Trustees and employee over 100 staff.
We were rated Outstanding by CQC in 2018 and at our recent inspection in 2023 maintained our Outstanding rating, you can see the full report here.
To Apply
Visit our website here (anthonycareservices.org.uk) to complete our initial online application form to apply.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £13.45 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Physical Setting:
Shift:
Work Location: In person
