Job Opportunities in Ireland
July 4, 2024
Comfort Keepers Ireland
Longford
PART TIME & FULL TIME
Home Support Worker
Please note that this role is often referred to by alternative titles: Carer, Home Carer, Community Carer, Care Assistant, Healthcare Assistant, and more.
Comfort Keepers are expanding our team in Longford.
While supporting with various tasks such as personal care, meal prep, and housekeeping, your genuine compassion and attentiveness will ensure our clients feel valued and supported.
Benefits
Your day starts with a visit to a client who has recently been feeling quite isolated and emotionally vulnerable due to limited mobility and the recent loss of a spouse. Upon arrival, you greet them with a gentle and caring approach.
After the initial conversation, you assist them with their morning routine. This includes helping with getting out of bed, personal hygiene, continence care, dressing, and medication prompts. Throughout these tasks, you maintain a caring and sensitive approach, respecting their need for privacy and independence.
Throughout your visit, you also ensure the living space is comfortable and safe, handling any light housekeeping tasks, ensuring their home environment is safe and secure.
As you leave, you reassure them about your next visit, leaving them with a sense of joy and a feeling of being cared for, both physically and emotionally.
You leave the client, content that they are okay and safe before heading off to your next client visit.
Example Schedule
Elevating the Human Spirit.
INDTUL1
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: Up to €17.00 per hour
Schedule:
Comfort Keepers are expanding our team in Longford.
While supporting with various tasks such as personal care, meal prep, and housekeeping, your genuine compassion and attentiveness will ensure our clients feel valued and supported.
Benefits
- Hourly rates of up to €15 per hour. Premium rates apply for half hour visits, weekends, bank holidays, length of service, and qualification.
- Unbeatable mileage payment between clients (separate from paid travel time)
- Paid travel time between client visits (separate from mileage)
- Permanent full-time and part-time contracts
- Flexible hours to suit your availability and promote work-life balance
- Bi-monthly pay
- Career progression opportunities and development
- Pay increments for length of service, experience, and qualification
- Free QQI qualification, Induction Training and Online certified training courses
- Free Uniforms and Garda Vetting
- 24/7 On-Call Support
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Wellness program and engagement events
- Carer of the Year and Month recognition
- Discounts and partnerships such as DCI Fuel Cards
Your day starts with a visit to a client who has recently been feeling quite isolated and emotionally vulnerable due to limited mobility and the recent loss of a spouse. Upon arrival, you greet them with a gentle and caring approach.
After the initial conversation, you assist them with their morning routine. This includes helping with getting out of bed, personal hygiene, continence care, dressing, and medication prompts. Throughout these tasks, you maintain a caring and sensitive approach, respecting their need for privacy and independence.
Throughout your visit, you also ensure the living space is comfortable and safe, handling any light housekeeping tasks, ensuring their home environment is safe and secure.
As you leave, you reassure them about your next visit, leaving them with a sense of joy and a feeling of being cared for, both physically and emotionally.
You leave the client, content that they are okay and safe before heading off to your next client visit.
Example Schedule
- Example Schedule 1: Mon-Wed - 5 hours a day, Sat & Sun - 9 hours a day (33hrs per week)
- Example Schedule 2: Tues, Thurs, Sun - 6 hours a day (18hrs per week)
- Example Schedule 3: Tues – 4 hours a day, every second Saturday & Sunday - 10hrs per day (14hrs per week – over 2 weeks)
Elevating the Human Spirit.
INDTUL1
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: Up to €17.00 per hour
Schedule:
- Every weekend
- Weekend availability
- Do you require a work permit/visa to work in Ireland? Yes/No
- Do you have QQI Care Skills and Care of the Older Person? Yes/No
- Do you have a Healthcare Qualification? Yes/No
- Do you have access to a car? Yes/No
- Have you lived in any country for six months or more other than the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland? If yes, do you understand that you will need to organise and provide us with an international police clearance certificate from the countries or jurisdictions you lived in?
- EU Driving Licence (required)
We regret to inform you that this job opportunity is no longer available
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