Visiting Care Worker FAQs

A visiting carer, also known as a domiciliary carer, visits people in their own home, helping them with personal care, like bathing, dressing, assisting with medication, or help with mobility or moving. You will work in what is known as visiting home care, for which there is an hourly rate and you may visit many people throughout your working day.

• Genuinely caring, compassionate and empathetic attitude
• Good level of spoken and written English
• Ability to follow instructions
• Responsible and able to work unsupervised
• Able to cope under pressure
• Flexible availability
• Hold a driving licence and have access to a car
• Previous experience of care is beneficial but not essential

As a visiting care worker, you may visit several clients throughout your working day to provide companionship and personal care in accordance with the client’s bespoke care plan.

Your client’s personal care plan is created by your Care Manager before we start delivering care. You will record daily notes and communicate with your care management team on a regular basis. Visiting carers receive full carer training and support in all aspects of care.

The hourly rate for visiting carers varies depending upon your experience and the type of care and hourly jobs you are doing. Our pay rates are highly competitive. We feel it is important to look after our team and pay them well.

When you have your visiting home carer interview it is important to present all the relevant paperwork as detailed below:

• Proof of your right to work in the UK
• DBS on the UK Government update service (if you don’t have one we can help you)
• Drivers licence (although not essential)
• An up to date CV
• Contact details of three professional references

You will be interviewed by one of our recruitment team, who will thoroughly check your paperwork and ask you questions to understand your skills, interests and personal objectives to get a broad understanding of who you are and your suitability for the domiciliary care assistant role.

At Berkeley Home Health, we take great pride in our learning and development training programme and when you work for us as a visiting carer, we encourage you to develop your carer career and take our advanced training modules, for example, learning more about our specialist dementia training.

Berkeley Home Health provides visiting home care services from our branches across the south and east of England. We have a consistent pipeline of new clients coming on boarding every week and are always looking for new visiting carers to join our team.

When selected for work as a visiting care assistant, our bookings co-ordinator will always look at where you live and the distance you are travelling between your hourly visits, as we always try to keep your driving to a minimum. However, in busy periods, covering illness and holidays, this is not always possible and at times, you may be asked to cover larger distances.

Berkeley Home Health visiting carers wear a deep purple tunic (which you’ll receive on your training course) and smart black trousers. We also provide a branded fleece. You’ll need some sturdy black shoes that are comfortable to work in, (no boots, heels or flimsy sandals).