Self-employed carers — daytime hourly visits

Private Carer Jobs in Ancoats

Set your own rates and hours — typical ranges £18.50–£20 per hour

  • Set your own rates, with no agency cut
  • Choose your clients and your hours
  • Contracts, invoicing and payments handled for you
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Registering takes a few minutes · How soon you start depends mostly on your DBS check

Description

Work as a self-employed private carer in Ancoats, providing daytime hourly home care visits to people who want to stay independent in their own homes. Typical duties include personal care, preparing meals, supporting medication prompts, light household tasks and short errands. You’ll meet clients in their homes across Ancoats and nearby neighbourhoods, and often cover one-off daytime visits or regular hour-by-hour calls.

Right now, 30 families are currently looking for care in the wider area.

This role suits experienced carers who value flexibility and direct relationships with families. If you’re used to agency shifts but want to choose your clients, set your own availability and control your working area, PrimeCarers is built for that. You remain fully self-employed, set your own rates and keep the autonomy you want while we handle the admin. Many carers in Ancoats set rates that match their skills and experience — typical ranges are £18.50–£20 per hour.

PrimeCarers finds clients for you and takes care of contracts, invoices and payments so you can focus on care. While you’re working with a family booked through the platform, insurance is included. You choose the hours, the clients you accept and the streets of Ancoats or neighbouring parts of Manchester you’ll cover. We see enquiries from families across New Islington, Northern Quarter, Collyhurst, Manchester city centre, Green Quarter and Glenbrook, so there’s scope to build regular daytime work or pick up occasional visits.

To join you’ll need at least one year of professional care experience, an Enhanced DBS check (we can help arrange this), the right to work in the UK and verifiable references. We don’t ask you to change how you deliver care — just to bring your experience and a professional approach. Profiles are quick to create: applying takes minutes and, once verified, profiles typically go live within days.

Work in Ancoats with the dignity and flexibility you deserve. Choose daytime hourly visits that fit your life, manage your own diary and keep control of the care you provide. If you want to move away from rigid rota-driven shifts but still have client introduction, contract and payment support, PrimeCarers puts the choice back in your hands.

Ready to start? Create your profile, upload a couple of checks and references, and begin reviewing client matches in Ancoats and across Manchester.

What carers earn around Ancoats

Carers on PrimeCarers are self-employed and set their own rates. Typical ranges are based on what carers in the area currently charge.

Hourly care

Based on 245 carers in the area

£18.50–£20 per hour

Overnight care

Based on 212 carers in the area

£17–£18 per hour

Live-in care

Based on 1528 carers in the area

£145–£160 per day

What you would take home in Ancoats

You set your own rate on PrimeCarers, and the rate you advertise is what a client is charged for your time. Our commission comes out of that rate rather than being added to it. Put your week in and the figures below move with it.

A week

£400

25 hours a week, before tax

A month

£1,733

The same week across a calendar month, before tax

The arithmeticA weekA month

Charged for your time

£20 an hour x 25

£500

£2,166.67

PrimeCarers commission

20%, VAT included

- £100

- £433.33

You receive

£16 an hour

£400

£1,733.33

Visits shorter than six hours are charged at the hourly commission rate. The commission is taken out of the rate you advertise rather than added on top of it, and the VAT on it comes out of our share.

Tax is yours to sort out

Carers on PrimeCarers are self-employed, so Income Tax and National Insurance come out of the take-home figure above. Nothing is deducted for you and this page does not work out what you owe. Tax and money as a self-employed carer walks through registering with HMRC and what to put aside.

Rates from what 245 carers within 30km of Ancoats on PrimeCarers charge for this kind of work, taken from the platform when this page was last built. 30 hourly and night placements within 30km of Ancoats are open at the moment.

Register as a carer to set your own rate and apply for work around Ancoats.

Register as a carer

What you get with PrimeCarers

Set your own rates

You’re self-employed and choose your fees — many carers charge within £18.50–£20 per hour.

Flexible hours

Choose daytime visits and build a diary that fits your life in Ancoats and nearby areas.

Choose your clients

Decide who you work with and focus on meaningful one-to-one care in people’s homes.

Admin and insurance covered

PrimeCarers handles client contracts, invoicing and payments, with insurance included while you work.

How it works

  1. 1

    1. Create your profile

    Apply online in minutes and list your experience, availability and service area in Ancoats.

  2. 2

    2. Verify & go live

    Upload an Enhanced DBS and references; PrimeCarers can help arrange checks and profiles typically go live within days.

  3. 3

    3. Find clients & work

    We connect you with families, handle contracts and payments, and include insurance while you’re on a booked visit.

Frequently asked questions

You work as a self-employed carer. That means you set your own rates, choose clients and manage your diary while PrimeCarers handles bookings and payments.

Daytime hourly home care: personal care, meal support, medication prompts, light domestic tasks and short errands. Visits are in people’s homes across Ancoats and nearby parts of Manchester.

PrimeCarers handles invoicing and collects payment from families. Payments are processed through the platform so you’re paid for the hours you work.

You’ll need at least one year of professional care experience, an Enhanced DBS (we can help arrange one), the right to work in the UK and verifiable references.

Applying takes minutes and, after verification, profiles generally go live within days. Then you can start reviewing client matches in Ancoats and surrounding neighbourhoods.

Ready to start earning on your own terms?

Join the carers already working with families around Ancoats through PrimeCarers. Set your rate, choose your clients, and let us handle the admin.