Job Hit By Coronavirus? Check our Northern Region Carer Posts Now

Glen Caring is recruiting compassionate individuals to join our fantastic family of Carers, at this critical time. If you have recently lost work on a temporary or permanent basis, then check out the opportunities for our carer posts now.

About Carer Posts Now Available

We have temporary, permanent & Banking (casual) contracts available to provide care to our clients in their own homes. Posts are available in Ballymoney, Garvagh, Coleraine & Ballymena.

So even if you’re hoping to go back to your job, it’s worth considering a temporary post in social care.

We offer a competitive salary, mileage, company pension scheme, full training and uniform is provided.

Glen Caring has been providing home care services since 1995. Today our team of trained carers and office/management staff enable our clients to remain at home with confidence and reassurance.  With the help of our care assistants, our clients can enjoy an improved quality of life. They can live as independently as possible in the community, so crucial now when the health service us under huge pressure.

Who Should Apply for These Carer Posts Now?

There are lots of reasons to apply for our carer posts now:

  • You are looking for a new challenge
  • You have no formal experience but have always wanted to start a career in caring
  • You have past experience and want to return to social care
  • You are looking for temporary work until the Coronavirus crisis is past and your job resumes
  • You are looking for a new permanent job

For these reasons and more, we have an opportunity for you to being that journey with Glen Caring Services. Join our amazing team of carers and help us make a difference to the lives of our client’s.

What We are Looking For

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about helping people especially during these tough times. You must be committed to delivering high standards of care to service users in their own homes.

If this sounds like you and you are interested in a role as a carer with Glen Caring, we would like to hear from you. Candidates do not need any previous experience as full training will be provided.

Essential Criteria for Carer Posts

In order to apply for any of these posts you must:

  • Have a full driving licence
  • Be aged 18 or over
  • Have access to a car

Successful applicants are subject to NI Social Care Council (NISCC) registration, Enhanced Access NI & reference checks.

How to Join the Glen Caring Team

To find out more or to request an application form, email us at info@glencaring.com to request an application form, or download an application form here. In the meantime, you can find out more about Glen Caring here.

Professional Growth with our Social Care Training

Glen Caring social care training opportunities enable carers to have richly rewarding professions with plenty of career progression.

Social care is a hugely rewarding career. Carers improve the quality of life of others. Through their work, they develop valuable life skills and improve their job prospects through training.

Begin your Journey with Glen Caring Social Care Training

All our carers receive the opportunity to upskill with free tuition before they begin work, says HR Manager, Rhys McCaffrey. “Staff gain an NVQ level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care, as standard. We also provide any further training that is necessary to meet the individual needs of service users in the community.”

Are you a student seeking to get your foot in the door of social care? Or is your job affected by Covid-19 and you want to enter a new sector? With Glen Caring, you can train and develop professionally while you work.

Glen Caring, as Northern Ireland’s leading Home Care service, is well-established as a leader in social care training. We’ve been caring in the community since 1995. Today we have over 300 staff providing care in over 1,000 homes in Tyrone, Derry/Londonderry and Antrim.

Rhys says all staff receive induction training, which is renewed annually. Staff have opportunities to get further accreditation and qualifications as they are needed.

In-House Staff Training

Glen Caring offers accessible in-house social care training for staff in all regions. Training covers a wide range of areas from manual handling and infection control, to dementia and medications.

These include the following:

● Glen Caring Policies and Procedures
● Infection Control
● Manual Handling
● Stoma and Catheter Care
● Effective communication
● Palliative Care
● Health and Safety
● Challenging Behaviour
● Abuse of vulnerable adults and children
● Medication
● Basic Food Hygiene
● First Aid
● Skin Care
● Recording and Reporting
● Fire Safety
● Managing Service User Money

“We encourage career progression at Glen Caring,” says Rhys. “We have proudly watched care assistants begin their caring journey with us. Over the years, those carers charted an exciting path to become team leaders.”

Carers can also avail of other areas of training when required.

Specialised Social Care Training

Specialised training options include:
● dementia training
● palliative care training
● brain injury
● trachea training
● epilepsy training

When equipped with these skills, carers can provide specialised care with dignity and privacy to service users in their homes.

“Social care is always changing,” says Rhys. “Therefore, we always adapt our training programmes to provide the most up to date and the highest standards of care for clients.”

While you’re caring and learning, you’ll also be enjoying the more immediate Glen Caring staff benefits. These include a competitive salary, working in a team of highly motivated people and in a flexible working environment.

Join Our Social Care Team

Home care has never been more important than it is today. Why not apply for a care assistant role in your area to contribute to this vital sector? Very soon you could be enjoying fulfilling work and continued professional development.

Visit our jobs page here to see our latest vacancies and take the leap into an exciting future in health and social care. For enquiries, you can email us at hrglencaring@gmail.com or call 028 82252666.

Full-Time and Part-Time Care Assistants Posts

Glen Caring has a range of full-time and part-time care assistants’ vacancies across all of our regions, from Coleraine down to Omagh. Our social care job opportunities enable carers to have richly rewarding professions, with plenty of career progression

These posts can offer flexible working hours to anyone with family and other responsibilities. Furthermore, social care is a hugely rewarding career. Carers improve the quality of life of others. Through their work, they develop valuable life skills and improve their job prospects through training. Find out more here about professional growth in Glen Caring.

Details of the services we offer to our clients are on our website ,but you can read more about Glen Caring Services here.

About Our Full-Time and Part-Time Care Assistants Posts

Our carers provide support to help people remain in their own homes. We will give you all the training you need for the job. So, previous experience is not necessary.

The full-time and part-time care assistants’ vacancies are on offer across the following areas:

    • Ballymoney
    • Ballymena
    • Garvagh
    • Coleraine
    • Portrush
    • Garvagh
    • Strabane
    • Omagh
    • Gortin
    • Newtownstewart
    • Ballymagorry
    • Derry

    Shift Patterns for Full-Time and Part-Time Care Assistants

    The shift pattern details for these posts are as follows:

    Full-Time Staff: Morning, lunch & tea (approx. 7am-6pm) OR Morning to Bed (approx. 7am-11pm) working a 3-day and 4-day pattern on a fortnightly cycle)

    Part-Time Staff: Evening runs (7-11pm working a 3-day & 4-day pattern on a fortnightly cycle)

    Week 1 – rostered to work Monday, Tuesday, Saturday & Sunday;

    Week 2 – rostered to work Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.

    What Glen Caring Offers You

    Looking after people is a very rewarding and satisfying job. The service you provide helps someone to stay at home for as long as possible, supported with dignity by people who care. In return, Glen Caring offers care assistants the following terms and benefits:

    • £11.20 per hour Monday-Friday (Morning, Lunch, Tea)
    • £11.50 per hour Bed Run (7pm-11pm) and all day weekends
    • Mileage allowance of £0.21 per mile
    • A work-life balance
    • Free Uniform
    • Flexible Rota’s
    • NVQ qualification in Health and Social Care available
    • Additional Training opportunities – find out more about Glen Caring Training here

    About Glen Caring

    Glen Caring has been providing home care services since 1995. Today our team of trained carers and office/management staff enable our clients to remain at home with confidence and reassurance. With the help of our care assistants, our clients can enjoy an improved quality of life and can live as independently as possible in the community they know and love.

    You will receive a full training induction before starting work and we’ll support you to gain accredited qualifications, which will develop you professionally and teach you new skills. So, while you’re caring, you will be developing personally and professionally. You’ll also be enjoying the more immediate rewards of a competitive salary. Thirdly, you will be working in a team of highly motivated people and in a flexible working environment. You can find out more About Us here.

    Applying for Full-Time and Part-Time Care Assistants

    If you are interested in joining the Glen Caring team you can download an application form here. Alternatively, you can call Rhys on 02882252666 or email us at hrglencaring@gmail.com

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