Healthcare Assistant / CAREGiver Wicklow

Home Instead is the leading provider of home care services in Wicklow.

Are you a caring person who’d like to bring your natural skills into the professional caregiving community, or an experienced carer who’s looking for a change?

Home Instead, Ireland’s largest provider of non-medical care for older people, is adding to its amazing team of CAREGivers in Home Instead Wicklow .

The long-established home care company is inviting applications from caring and compassionate people who want to make a difference in the lives of older people and their families.

Who we're looking for

• Full-time Carers: You already work in home care, and have QQI training to support your experience
• Part-time Carers (experienced): You already work part-time in home care with older people in your community or perhaps you are or have been a family carer and would like to help more older people live happy lives at home
• Part-time Carers (non-experienced): You care about the older people in your community, you’d like to help them to live happy lives at home, on a schedule that fits your life and matches your availability
• Student Nurses: You have QQI-level training and are looking for practical experience and flexible opportunities as you work towards full qualification
• Former Nurses / Retirees: You’d like to spend a few hours a week giving back to the community, working for the world’s leading non-medical home care provider!

The most important thing we look for in a person is a kind and caring heart – someone who shares our mission and values and who would like to help us to enhance the lives of older people and their families in Home Instead.

What you'll do

• You’ll enhance the lives of older people and their families by delivering a range of non-medical services to seniors in the local community.
• You’ll be trained, the ‘Home Instead Way’, and you’ll work with clients at different stages of their care journey.
• You’ll bring happiness into the hearts of local seniors, by helping them with daily tasks, reducing loneliness, and making home a better place to live.
• Your care visits could last anything from an hour a day per client to a full eight-hour shift.
• With the right training, you’ll provide more complex care to clients with higher needs, such as long-term illnesses, chronic conditions or Alzheimer’s or other dementias.
  
   

What you'll get

• Competitive rates of pay, with higher rates for weekends and bank holidays.
• Free 20-hour induction training.
• Flexible schedule that matches your availability. Support and back-up from a nurse-led team.
• Opportunities for personal and professional development. Access to CAREGiver appreciation activities.

Take the first step on your career with Home Instead Wicklow – Apply today.

https://www.homeinstead.ie/become-a-caregiver/join-homeinstead-team