• Location: Bridgwater & Minehead
• Contract type: Care Assistant
• Salary details: £26,000 contract salary A career pathway with opportunities for promotion & development Full-time Paid mileage at 35p per mile Travel Time Paid at NMW Recognition of your career milestones Training

While many Care providers only pay for your contact time, we believe that you should be paid for every minute that you are being a Bluebird Care Ambassador, even if you are sat in your car. Join our team and your salary will be by the hour and not per contact time.

Providing Quality Care

Bluebird Care started as a small family business in 2004, and today we are proud to be one of the largest providers of home care services across the UK. But what makes us different?

We’re committed to keeping people in the comfort of their own home, so we help with anything from everyday tasks around our customers’ homes through to complex care needs. We appreciate that every customer is different, and this is why every day will be different.

Bluebird Care are partnered with the Somerset NHS trust to support patients back into their own home and ensure that they can continue to be able to live independently. With this partnership comes some fantastic opportunities to join our valued and dedicated Home from Hospital care team as a Reablement Assistant.

Our Reablement Assistants promotes independence by meeting the individual’s needs. It’s important to us that we support our customers in the community with a collaborative and person-centred approach and you will be travelling across Taunton and surrounding areas and therefore own transport is ESSENTIAL

Our customers will need support with daily living task such as personal care, medication, and encouraging them to make links with their local community.

Roles and Responsibilities as a Home from Hospital - Rehabilitation Care Assistant 

• Providing personal care duties
• Administering medication
• Manual handling, using equipment where required
• Promoting customer health and well-being, enabling them to live their life to the full
  • £26,000
  • A career pathway with opportunities for promotion & development
  • Full-time
  • Paid mileage at 35p per mile
  • Recognition of your career milestones
  • Ongoing training and support
  • Company pension scheme
  • Free Uniform
  • Paid Training

Your Experience and Suitability for the Home from Hospital enabler role

It’s isn’t about previous experience. We want to ensure our customer receives the very best care and to do that we need people who are naturally compassionate, caring and patient. We want a team who genuinely cares for each of our customers as if it was their own family.

 But don’t panic, we’ll ensure you have all the right training and development because we care for our Care Assistants. After all, they care for our customers so it’s important that you feel equipped for the role.

You must have:

• Full and valid UK driving licence
• Access to a car
• Right to work in the UK 
• Excellent level of English

Because We Care About You 

We understand that every member of our team has their own family to care for and this is why our role offers the flexibility to work around your own home life. You can choose between full-time or part-time work; all you have to do is simply tell us your availability. Although we try to be flexible where we can, we do require you to be flexible with us too, that’s why we will require you to work **date/times required**. 

We can’t care for our customers if we don’t take care of our team so to make this possible, we offer: 

• An excellent rate of £26,000
• 35p mileage allowance 
• 28 days holiday pro rata
• Full training induction and a 12-week mentor
• Ongoing training and support
• Flexible working 
• Full time
• Weekend availability
• 12hr shifts
• 8hr shifts
• Pension scheme 
• Smartphone technology so you can do everything at the tap of a finger
• Free uniform

But not only that, we take care of our team throughout the year, whether it's your birthday, Christmas, awards or simply because it’s a Thursday. We’re a family and we’re here to look after you today, tomorrow and every other day after that.