Live-in care assistant

Live-in care assistant

Full time, permanent

Up to £140 a day

Want to make a difference to someone else’s life and enable them to stay at home? Join Cherished Home Care and find out why caring is the best job there is.

Working as a live-in care assistant, you’ll enable people to have a choice to live life on their own terms. Providing people with comfort, companionship, continuity and care, you'll provide support at a time when people need it the most and all in the comfort of their own home.  You’ll enable people to have a choice about where, when and how they receive care.

Whilst you’re supporting your client with all aspects of their care needs, we’ll support you with work patterns and benefits that make a massive difference to your lifestyle, health and wellbeing. We’re looking for experienced carers to support our clients with higher care needs, working on average 10 - 12 hours per day on a live-in basis. We’ll ensure you have all the support you need, with generous breaks in placement to enable you to provide the best care possible to your client. 

We care about the things you care about:

• Generous rates of pay - earn up to £140 a day
• Gain additional skills - working for a client with higher complex needs means you’ll truly make a difference
• Your work will be meaningful - you’ll become a part of a team that really makes a difference to the lives of our clients. You’ll see first hand the impact great care has on your client
• Live-in care means you will have less personal outgoings such as food costs and utility bills
• £45 travel expense permitted for each one way journey to/from your placement 
• Funded Blue Light Card - giving you access to lots of discounts to both online and highstreet retailers
• Free training in London, with opportunities to further develop your

knowledge through our ongoing training courses

• Assistance programme - supporting you in times of need
• Free enhanced DBS 
• 24/7 on call support
• Generous ‘Refer A Friend’ Scheme
• We offer longer placements which enable you to spend more time building a meaningful relationship with the person you care for and that give you flexibility to fit your work pattern around your lifestyle choices
• You will be engaged to work with us for the duration of your placement. We handle all your tax and national insurance deductions during that period, so that’s one less thing for you to think about, you will also be paid a holiday entitlement

You might have professional experience as a support worker, or as a care assistant in a residential or domiciliary care setting. Or you might already be an experienced live-in carer looking for a new way to maximise your earning potential. Whatever your level of professional experience, we would love to hear from you. Please note you must already have the right to work in the UK as we cannot assist with any sponsorship or visa requests.

Through our existing award winning sister brands; The Good Care Group and Oxford Aunts, we know exactly what it takes to provide professional, person-centred care. And that is the same sentiment we have for Cherished Home Care.

What does a live-in care assistant do?

Live-in care assistants live with a client for the duration of their chosen work pattern. You’ll look after one person or at times a couple, following a person centred care plan where you’ll tailor your support to meet your clients’ needs. Duties are likely to include:

• Assisting with daily activities
• Personal care
• Support in managing conditions such as dementia
• Cooking, cleaning and ensuring the smooth running of the household
• You could be working on average 10 - 12 hours per day based on your clients’ needs 

About you: You’ll be someone who’s happy to talk, laugh and enjoy time with our clients, assisting them in their activities and encouraging them to live life to the full. If you share our passion for quality care, we’d love to hear from you.   

We’re looking for the following skills and experience:

• At least 6 months’ professional care experience gained in any care setting
• Proof of your right to work in the UK. (E.g a British passport, settled or pre-settled status as part of the EU settlement scheme, or a current visa that allows you to work in the UK with no restrictions). We cannot assist with any sponsorship or visa requests – including those applying for a health and social care visa. 
• You must be flexible to travel to your client placement 

Cherished Home Care is part of a family of home care brands in the UK, including The Good Care Group, Oxford Aunts, Prestige Nursing & Care and Comfort Keepers (Ireland). 

Please note any successful applicants for this role will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check for working with adults. It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group.  

Your daily rate is based on the agreed number of daily hours (DAHA) you are working.