Do you Live in Margate?

Do you want to work in domiciliary Care?

We are looking to recruit a number of people to join our team of care and support workers in Thanet. We currently provide help to around 250 people and employ over 100 people. We are particularly keen to recruit car drivers in  Margate. However, we have work throughout Thanet.

Caremark Thanet's Fun Day

We are looking for people with talent and ambition; who are flexible and reliable; and who share our ambition to transform domiciliary care. When you work for us you are never just a carer; you are one of the most important people in our business.  

Our ethos: "We believe that our customers are the most important people for our business; that our care and support workers are the most important people in our business; that a socially responsible business is most important for everyone. We are part of the service sector."

We have some fantastic opportunities for the right people. These are not just jobs; they are careers. We can offer very competitive rates of pay; petrol payments;  promotion opportunities; pensions; free uniforms, and last, but by no means least, some of the most exciting training opportunities in Thanet. 

Do you want to work for a company that has an ambitious vision? Do you want to work for a company that is uncompromisingly and unrelentingly customer focused? Do you want to work for a company that recognises and rewards your reliability, hard work and commitment? Do you want to work for a company that is engaged with the local community?

Our Vision: "To be Thanet’s first choice private domiciliary care provider for customers and carers."

Don't miss these fabulous opportunities. If we sound like a company that you would like to work for, contact us today on: 01843 235910 or email: thanet@caremark.co.uk.

Garry Costain is the Managing Director of Caremark Thanet, a domiciliary care provider with offices in Margate, Kent. Caremark Thanet provides home care services throughout the Isle of Thanet. Garry can be contacted on 01843 235910 or email garry.costain@caremark.co.uk. You can also visit Caremark Thanet's website at www.caremark.co.uk/thanet.

Caremark Thanet's Coffee Morning: Get Back into Work

Would You Like to Work in Domiciliary Care?

Have you finished work but feel you are not ready to retire completely? Like many people who retire, you may still be very active and would like to do some work again. If so, have you thought about working in domiciliary care?

What Is Domiciliary Care?

Domiciliary care, or home care, is care provided in people's homes. It is an immeasurably important service delivered to some of the most frail and vulnerable members of our society. With a little help from home care providers like us, these important members of our society maintain their independence and remain living in the homes they love. It is difficult to over-exaggerate just how important this service is. Many of our customers have lived in their home for decades so it's little wonder that they choose to stay there.

What Makes a Good Care and Support Worker?

The one thing we do not look for is experience. The most important qualities we seek cannot be taught. It is our considered view that people who have the advantage of years on their side often make very good carers. The quality of patience and the ability to empathise with others - key to successful care work - are usually highly developed in people of maturity. 

It pretty much goes without saying that you have to be caring. It is not, however, a given that people who work in care are always caring. You need only look at some of the horrendous abuse cases that have happened in the last few years to be disturbingly reminded of this.

Perhaps the single most important quality for any care and support worker to possess is reliability. When you work in care, many people rely upon you. Your customers rely upon you; their families rely upon you; your colleagues rely upon you, and often other health professionals rely upon you.

You will have to be absolutely comfortable delivering personal care. We provide a wide range of services to our customers including preparing meals, shopping, medication support and domestic help. Rarely are people uncomfortable with these activities. However, personal care - the service that we most commonly provide - is something that some people are a little awkward with. You MUST be completely comfortable, competent and confident in delivering personal care. The people you are caring for are already placed in a position where their dignity is threatened. Your discomfort will only exacerbate matters.

What Should You Do Next?

If you are interested in what you have read and would like to find out more, why not come along to our coffee morning. it is being held at on Monday 6 November 2017 at Smith's Court Hotel - Eastern Esplanade, Cliftonville, CT9 2HL,  between 10.00 am - 12.00. 

The world of domiciliary care is changing, and working for Caremark Thanet over the next few years is going to open up enormous opportunities for you. Finding out more by attending our coffee morning may be one of the best things you do.

If you want to book a place contact Jemma Clayton on 01843 235910, or email Jemma at jemma.clayton@caremark.co.uk.

We are aiming the event at people who are retired; however, we have vacancies for care and support workers from the age of 18 upwards. So if you know someone who hasn't quite reached retirement age, bring them along with you. You and they will be very welcome, indeed.

Garry Costain is the Managing Director of Caremark Thanet, a domiciliary care provider with offices in Margate, Kent. Caremark Thanet provides home care services throughout the Isle of Thanet. Garry can be contacted on 01843 235910 or email garry.costain@caremark.co.uk. You can also visit Caremark Thanet's website at www.caremark.co.uk/thanet.

The Transformation of Domiciliary Care

Why Work in Domiciliary Care?

Why should anyone want to work in domiciliary care? There are multiple reasons, very compelling reasons, but let's face it domiciliary care does not always enjoy a good press. Spend more than a few minutes searching the internet and you will find plenty of stories to put you off working in domiciliary care.

However, I believe that there is reason for working in home care that, perhaps, you have not thought of. And that reason is that domiciliary care is changing - let's not put too fine a point on this: it is not just changing; it is transforming. It is not there yet. There is some way to go. But the change has started. And we intend to be instrumental in that transformation.

Yes, the world of domiciliary care is changing. It is a change for the better. It is a change that benefits those who work in care and those who receive care. Working in care is no longer "just a job" and those who work in care are no longer "just carers". This change is happening; it is happening now, it will continue, it has to continue, it cannot be slowed.

Domiciliary care has to evolve into a profession. It has to be seen by potential workers as a career. It has to be able to offer people opportunities to gain valuable experiences and qualifications. It has to become an industry where those who are prepared to shoulder responsibility are rewarded. This is a transformation. A transformation that will not happen without a driving force. That driving force must in the first instance be employers; in the second instance carers and potential carers.   

The Brave New World of Home Care: Is It for You?

If working in domiciliary care is truly going to offer you a career, it must transform into a place where there are greater opportunities and greater rewards. It must offer these opportunities and rewards to two groups of people who occupy two ends of a spectrum and to all those who fall in between. As is often the case, few people occupy the extremes of the spectrum; most fall somewhere in between.

At one end of the spectrum are those of you who are eminently reliable, conspicuously good at your jobs, see caring as a calling but, for various reasons, do not want to take on the burden of too much extra responsibility. You are very happy to be well trained and develop your skills because you know this enables you to provide the outstanding care that your customers have a right to receive and you have a duty to deliver. You will be very happy that care is gaining an enhanced status; you will see this as an enormous benefit for you and your customers. You will also be pleased that there are greater opportunities emerging and that, should your circumstances change, you may be able to avail yourselves of these opportunities.

At the other end of the spectrum are those of you who want a career; therefore, you may initially have entered care as a stepping stone into nursing or some other profession. You may have gone into care unsure of what you wanted and discovered you like it a great deal. Whatever your precise circumstances, you find you have joined a company that is ambitious, and has the vision to see how things must develop, and has the drive to implement change, and the awareness to recognise talent, and the desire to reward hard work. You may now realise that you are working for a dynamic company in an embryonic profession where there exists manifest opportunities for capable, enthusiastic people. Moreover, you can play a part in helping the profession mature.

This world of domiciliary care is one where the expectations upon you will be high and where diligence and talent are rewarded. It is a career, a vocation, a profession. It is not a refuge for the feckless but a proving ground for the capable; it is not a harbour for apathy but a home for industry, for enterprise, for energy, for enthusiasm.

Why Should You Work in Domiciliary Care?

Do you recognise yourself on the spectrum I have described above? Then the question for you is answered. Do you recognise the changes I have described? They are happening. Why not play a part? 

Why not find out more?

Garry Costain is the Managing Director of Caremark Thanet, a domiciliary care provider with offices in Margate, Kent. Caremark Thanet provides home care services throughout the Isle of Thanet. Garry can be contacted on 01843 235910 or email garry.costain@caremark.co.uk. You can also visit Caremark Thanet's website at www.caremark.co.uk/thanet.

Are You Retired and Looking to Return to Work?

Introduction
We are a domiciliary care company (Caremark Thanet) providing care to the residents of Thanet in their homes. We have been doing this highly successfully for almost five years. If you are retired and looking to return to work, we have opportunities for you to come and work for us as a care and support worker. You do not need experience; you do need to be caring, reliable, flexible and hardworking.

If you think this is an opportunity that might interest you, read on. If, after reading this article, you find that you are still interested in working in home care, then we should like to invite you to our coffee morning on Monday 6th November 2017 at Smith's Court Hotel, between 10.00 am - 12.00 noon. We will be able to answer all your questions at this event. In the meantime, what follows is a little bit about domiciliary care, a bit about us and a little about how we view working in domiciliary care.

Domiciliary Care
We are a home care company, which means that we go out to care for people in their homes. Working in care is very demanding but very rewarding. Our customers are amongst some of Thanet's most frail and vulnerable residents. When you work for us your, customers will depend upon you. They come to rely upon you. And it is not just customers who rely upon you; your colleagues rely upon you - as you will rely upon them; the families of your customers rely upon you, and often other health professionals rely upon you. This is a heavy responsibility, indeed. We know from experience; however, that people with a little maturity on their side are eminently suitable for shouldering this burden.

By far the most common service we provide to our customers is personal care. You have to be completely comfortable with this if you are going to become one of our care and support workers. You have to be comfortable with it because it is a service that all our carers are required to carry out. And you have to be comfortable with it because if you are not; your discomfort will be transmitted to your customer. You are already carrying out a task that, by its very nature, threatens your customer's dignity: your discomfort will simply exacerbate things.

A Little about Us
We have a very simple, yet profoundly important business ethos. We believe that our customers are the most important people for our business; that our care and support workers are the most important people in our business; that a socially responsible business is most important for all of us. We have an equally simple yet important vision: To be Thanet’s first choice private domiciliary care provider for customers and carers. You can find out more about our ethos, vision and values in this article.

Our View of Working in Domiciliary Care
We have extra-ordinary high expectations. We believe passionately that working in care is a career. When you work for us, you are never "just a carer".  Caring is not just a job; it is a vocation; caring is not the the last resort for the aimless; it should be the first choice for the ambitious; it is not a job without prospects; it is a position with opportunities; a chance to develop, not a place to rest.

Of course, we can only offer opportunities. It is down to individuals to seize them. Opportunities are not for everyone.

If you have liked what you have read, why not come along on Monday 6th November 2017. Just a reminder it is being held at Smith's Court Hotel - Eastern Esplanade, Cliftonville, CT9 2HL - between 10.00 am - 12.00. We'd love to see you there, and who knows where it might lead you.

Garry Costain is the Managing Director of Caremark Thanet, a domiciliary care provider with offices in Margate, Kent. Caremark Thanet provides home care services throughout the Isle of Thanet. Garry can be contacted on 01843 235910 or email garry.costain@caremark.co.uk. You can also visit Caremark Thanet's website at www.caremark.co.uk/thanet.

Do You Work in Domiciliary Care?

Are you looking for something new?

We are Caremark Thanet: Providers of Outstanding Domiciliary Care to the Residents of Thanet.

We are looking to recruit a small number of experienced care and support workers to supplement our existing team. We are looking for people to cover: Margate, Ramsgate, Broadstairs, Westgate, Birchington and Sandwich.

We currently have a particular demand for people who are available to work weekends and/or evenings

If you would like to find out more about the opportunities that are available with us please telephone me on 01843 235910. However, before you do that, please read the following article:

http://thanetcare.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/what-do-we-look-for-in-potential.html

This article tells you a great deal about the type of company we are and what we look for in care and support workers.

You can also visit our website: www.caremark.co.uk

and Facebook page: facebook.com/caremarkthanet

If you feel that we are the type of company that you would like to work for: telephone me now.