Community Care Worker

Posting date17 June 2025

Closing date17/07/2025 13:19:14

Salary£12.45 to £13.60 per hour

LocationLowestoft, Suffolk

CompanyCaring Forever Ltd

Job typePermanent

HoursPart Time

Reference16704199

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Caring Forever is expanding it's Lowestoft team of Community Care Worker's.

Our teams have been providing care & support to individuals in their own home for more than 10 years. Their experience and skillset ensures Caring Forever provides personalised and adaptable care, enabling individuals to remain home comfortably, safely, and longer.

What Caring Forever can offer you:

Guaranteed hours
Tailored working availability
Paid travel time!
Paid training, shadowing and on-boarding costs!
Employee referral scheme
Health & Wellbeing Program*
Enhanced rate for overtime
Bank Holidays paid at 1.5x hourly rate
Christmas Day and Boxing day 2x hourly rate
Training opportunities, such as NVQ in Health & Social care

* Becoming a part of our team grants access to a health & wellbeing program. You'll receive a range of benefits like health tracking, recipes, and fitness resources. Additionally, you will have 24/7/365 access to UK based advisors offering face-to-face, telephone or online support in areas such as wellbeing, CBT, bereavement support, and legal information on events which may be causing stress in your life.

As a Community Care Worker, your duties will include:

Personal Care
Meal Preparation
Maintaining and improving health & wellbeing
Working as a team
Medication administration
Everyday household tasks
Providing access to the community through outings

As a family business, we understand the importance of personal commitments. From day one, a working availability is agreed that can be as flexible or structured as you would like, allowing you to plan your weeks and schedule holiday months ahead of time.

Caring Forever is one of few care providers in the area that pay's travel time in addition to your hourly rate! Travel time is automatically calculated based on your rota and paid for the full duration traveling between care visits. No more personal timekeeping!

The successful applicant will be:

A great communicator
Respectful to others, offer support & dignity
Able to work on their own initiative
Punctual
Empathetic & Considerate

Your hourly rate will be determined by previous experience and existing qualifications in social care.

Due to the role, you must have availability to work every other weekend (Saturday & Sunday). You must also have the right to work in the UK and hold a valid UK full driving license, with access to their own vehicle.

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