Live in care at Home – Elderly home care blog

If you are looking for a live in care job in the UK and you have live in care experience of at least 12-months then Care at Home is looking to recruit carers.

In addition to having a years experience as a live-in carer, you must also have your basic skills for care training and have started your NVQ level 2 training. However, if your training is not up-to-date on your basic skills we will help you get this back on track and up-to-date for you.

Our recruitment process is to ask you to complete an application form “Live in care jobs application form“. Please complete this form and send it to our head-office whereupon, if you are chosen for interview we then write to two of your chosen references. If you receive two good references and you pass the interview we then have to follow the usual Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checking procedure and will then get you started as soon as possible.

To become a live in carer for Care at Home we require the following:

- At least 1 years live-in care experience. Additional experience at a care home, nursing home is an advantage in this job.

- A person who has empathy for others and has a calm and caring personality with an ability to provide physical and emotional support.

- Satisfactory references and an enhanced CRB check (We will carry out a CRB check before your employment commences).

- Qualifications in care, including Moving and Handling, SOVA, Health and Safety, Food Hygiene and Medication. However, we do provide training in these areas, if your qualifications for this are not completely up-to-date.

So if you are looking for live in care jobs, then you can download our Live-in care application form by clicking here.

Once we receive your Live-in carer application form – You application will be reviewed and successful applicants will be ask to attend an interview at our offices in Wendens Ambo (Essex), which are right next to the Audley End train station on the train line from London Liverpool Street to Cambridge. All trains leaving London stop at Audley End, which makes it easy for those of you that live in London.

If you prefer – you can telephone on 01799 541400 or email us for the application form and we will send one to you in the post.