Respite Care — Weekend & Short-Term
Weekend Carer Jobs in Brent Cross
Flexible respite roles and weekend cover — set your own rates from £18.80–£20 per hour
- Set your own rates, with no agency cut
- Choose your clients and your hours
- Contracts, invoicing and payments handled for you
Registering takes a few minutes · How soon you start depends mostly on your DBS check
Description
If you provide short-term respite and weekend care, PrimeCarers can connect you with families around Brent Cross who need reliable, experienced cover. These roles are about giving family carers a break — from a few hours in an evening to overnight stays or a couple of days at a time. Right now, 232 families are currently looking for care in the wider area.
Respite care in Brent Cross typically includes companionship, personal care within a client’s usual routine, support with mobility and prompting medication where required. You’ll meet families who need calm, experienced help for predictable short periods — weekend shifts, ad-hoc day cover and planned short breaks. Work can be local to Brent Cross and nearby areas such as West Hendon, Hendon, Golders Green, Temple Fortune, Cricklewood and The Hyde, and we also see bookings from Enfield.
This is ongoing self-employed work, not a single placement. Carers on PrimeCarers set their own rates and choose the clients, hours and service area that suit them. Typical pay sits around £18.80–£20 per hour, with more detail available in your profile settings — many carers list an hourly care range of £18.80–£20 per hour or a live-in day rate of £145–£160 per day. You decide what to charge and when to accept work. If you’re thinking of leaving agency routines, this gives you freedom and control over weekend availability in Brent Cross and beyond.
PrimeCarers handles the admin so you can focus on care. We find clients, manage contracts, run invoicing and payments, and provide insurance while you are working on our platform. If you prefer weekends in Enfield or Brent Cross suburbs, you can limit your service area and only accept the bookings that fit your life.
To join you need at least one year of professional care experience, the right to work in the UK, an Enhanced DBS (we can help arrange this) and verifiable references. Many experienced carers switch to self-employed working patterns to gain scheduling freedom and clearer control over the work they do. Applying takes minutes and, once verified, profiles typically go live within days.
If you’re an experienced carer used to short-term or weekend respite, setting up a PrimeCarers profile is a quick way to start choosing better-fit clients in Brent Cross and neighbouring neighbourhoods. Create your profile, upload your documents and start seeing suitable requests within a few days.
What carers earn around Brent Cross
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 1278 carers in the area
£18.80–£20 per hour
Overnight care
Based on 1100 carers in the area
£17–£19.50 per hour
Live-in care
Based on 2196 carers in the area
£145–£160 per day
What you would take home in Brent Cross
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
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 1278 carers within 30km of Brent Cross on PrimeCarers charge for this kind of work, taken from the platform when this page was last built. 232 hourly and night placements within 30km of Brent Cross are open at the moment.
Register as a carer to set your own rate and apply for work around Brent Cross.
Register as a carerWhy carers choose PrimeCarers
You set your pay
Self-employed carers choose their rates and clients — many list within £18.80–£20 per hour.
Control your hours
Pick weekend shifts or short blocks of respite that fit your life and availability.
Work that matters
Provide short-term relief for family carers and build trusting local relationships.
Admin and insurance handled
PrimeCarers manages contracts, invoicing and payments, with insurance included while you work.
How it works
- 1
Create a profile
Apply in minutes, add your experience, DBS and references so families can find you.
- 2
Get verified
We check documents and references. PrimeCarers can help if you need an Enhanced DBS.
- 3
Choose work locally
Once live (typically within days), you’ll receive suitable respite requests and accept the ones you want.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Carers on PrimeCarers work as self-employed professionals. You set your own rates, choose clients, hours and the area you’ll cover. PrimeCarers introduces families and handles contracts and payments, but you remain in control of which bookings you accept.
Respite care covers short-term support to give family carers a break. Tasks can include companionship, personal care, support with mobility and following agreed routines. The exact duties depend on each family’s needs; you’ll always see requests before accepting them.
You’ll need at least one year of professional care experience, the right to work in the UK, an Enhanced DBS (we can help arrange this) and verifiable references. Once you upload these, verification usually completes quickly.
Carers set their own rates and PrimeCarers manages invoicing and payments for bookings. Typical ranges are shown in profile options (many carers list an hourly range of £18.80–£20 per hour or a live-in day range of £145–£160 per day). Payments are processed through the platform after care is delivered.
Yes. There’s regular demand for weekend and short-term respite in Brent Cross and surrounding areas. You can limit your service area to local neighbourhoods, such as West Hendon, Hendon, Golders Green, Temple Fortune, Cricklewood and The Hyde, and choose only the shifts that suit you. Applying takes minutes and profiles typically go live within days.
Guides for carers
What the work pays, the checks and paperwork you need, and how to get started.
Ready to start earning on your own terms?
Join the carers already working with families around Brent Cross through PrimeCarers. Set your rate, choose your clients, and let us handle the admin.