Community care workers in my area are offered £11.75 - £12.25…….

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A local Fb group advertised community care positions recently, hours to suit, 40ppm fuel allowance - £11.75 - £12.25 ph!

I have always worked in an office environment, aftersales, planning dept, lots of responsibility and not just a ‘paper shuffler’ for years!

I have a 40 mile round trip to get to work!

I’d love to know what community care work involves! I imagine it’s EXTREMELY hard but also fulfilling?

I enjoy what I do, it’s all I’ve ever known, but due to various reasons (new boss) my salary didn’t increase for 3 years! Finally had approx 3% increase this year, taking me up to almost £12ph! (I’m close to the Midlands).

Due to the ever increasing bills, I’m possibly looking for a change, positive being a job which is local to me, that will save me approx £200 + pm (small, shitty car, if I had a larger vehicle god knows what it would be).

Please share everything you know, good, bad and ugly.

I understand that doing lots of short visits must be exhausting and financially disappointing but if you can sign with an agency for longer shifts or even live-in if that’s an option then the situation is very different.

I’m currently trying to recruit a carer for my DD and know from dealing with the LA and multiple agencies that there is an awful shortage of carers at the moment.

We are looking at various shift patterns as DD needs 24/7 care and our current arrangement is 1 person doing a full week at a time for which they will be getting minimum £1600pw plus their own en suite room, no travel required and plenty of breaks during the day.

Over the summer we have been working 12 hour shift patterns which were £13ph so although the rate isn’t amazing the number of hours soon adds up.

Might be worth looking at agencies or a direct app like Curam and seeing if you can avoid the 15 minute visits and focus on longer shifts?