Job Description
Care Assistant – Mill Hill, NW7
Pay Rate from £11.05 per hour
SweetTree Home Care, a CQC rated Outstanding social care organisation could be the place for you!
Within SweetTree Home Care, we are currently looking for experienced care assistants in and around the North West London area, partuclarly Mill Hill to support our clients who are elderly, have dementia, are disabled or need end of life care.
We have shifts available from 3 - 12 hours per day and for various days and weekends.
The role of a care assistant is unique and varied because the people you support all have unique needs. Whilst this can be a diverse role, the key focus is always on supporting a person to lead a fulfilling and more independent life.
On a day-to-day basis, care assistant duties could include helping with meal preparation, household chores, assisting with personal care, administering medication, accessing community facilities, going shopping, meeting friends, visiting the doctors and providing general emotional support. In return, we offer all our support workers:
Our care assistants enjoy working with SweetTree because:
✅We are paying the London Living Wage and above, starting hourly rates from £11.05
✅Our minimum visit with each client is 3 hours
✅Comprehensive Pre-Employment Assessment Programme
✅Internal awards, a recognition scheme and Long Service Awards
✅£200 Friend Referral Scheme
✅28 days paid holiday including Bank holidays
✅DBS Certificate fully refunded once you have worked 80 hours
✅Our care assistants appreciate the one-on-one client interaction
✅ AIMS accredited Training Academy, offering lots of courses and qualifications to help you build your career
✅A full and comprehensive pre-employment assessment training programme
✅Support from our enthusiastic and innovative management team
✅Social events, including Summer and Christmas parties
What to do next? - Please click apply to complete our application form and our recruitment team will be in touch.
At the core of SweetTree’s service philosophy is a belief that everyone should have the opportunity to live independently in their own home, with dignity, freedom of choice and control over their life; regardless of their level of need. We make this vision a reality by employing the best people and by adopting a team approach to the provision of our services.
Our clients and care team members are always at the forefront of all we do, we understand that in order to continually evolve and improve what we do our care team members need to feel appreciated, valued, and well trained!
We are a caring employer and committed to developing, nurturing and rewarding our team. And that’s why we continue to be recognised and awarded for the work that we do. Testament to this is once again being recognised by Best Companies as a Top 100 Company to work for – an award that measures and acknowledges excellence in workplace engagement. Only organisations with the highest level of overall employee engagement qualify for the 100 Best Company to Work For list – and we are proud to be one of them!
Strong recruitment, training and career development practices have also seen SweetTree retain its position as an Investors in People Gold Standard company – an accolade achieved by just 7% of accredited organisations and only 1,000 organisations nationwide.
“It is fantastic recognition for the hard work and dedication of both our office based staff and care team members to receive such wonderful feedback from such highly regarded external bodies, this just reinforces what a wonderful, unique and special company and team we have here at SweetTree.” Barry Sweetbaum, Founder