Flexible, self-employed roles

Private Carer Jobs in Buckingham

Hourly home care with rates from £18.80–£21.50 per hour — choose clients, hours and your service area

  • 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

PrimeCarers connects experienced, self-employed carers with families across Buckingham and the surrounding area. These are ongoing, hourly home care opportunities: daytime visits to help with personal care, preparing meals, prompting or administering medication, and running errands so people can stay independent at home. You choose the hours, clients and how far you’ll travel in Buckingham and nearby towns. Right now, 11 families are currently looking for care in the wider area.

Day-to-day work varies by client. Typical daytime visits last from 30 minutes to a few hours and focus on essential support: personal care (bathing, dressing, continence support), meal preparation, medication prompts, companionship and practical tasks like shopping or collecting prescriptions. You’ll usually work with the same clients so you can build reliable, trusting relationships in the local community.

This setup is a good fit for carers who want more control than agency life: if you have at least one year’s professional care experience and prefer setting your own schedule, this could work well. Carers on PrimeCarers are self-employed and set their own rates, with typical rates from £18.80–£21.50 per hour. You choose who to work with and which postcodes you’ll cover.

PrimeCarers finds clients and handles the admin: we issue contracts, take care of invoicing and payments, and provide insurance while you work. We also check references and verify right to work in the UK. 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
  • Verifiable references

Many carers coming from agency roles find they can reduce unwanted travel, pick better-matched clients and take more control over their working life. You remain self-employed, which means arranging tax and NI on your side, but PrimeCarers reduces much of the client-facing paperwork and payment chasing.

We work across Buckinghamshire and the surrounding towns — you can cover Buckingham and places such as Winslow, Brackley, Stony Stratford, Wolverton and Greenleys, Towcester and Bicester. Applying takes minutes and profiles typically go live within days of verification. If you’re ready to keep doing the caring work you love but with more freedom, PrimeCarers makes it straightforward to get started.

How to apply: Complete a short profile, upload your references and DBS (or let us help arrange one), and confirm your right to work. Your profile will be reviewed and, once verified, made visible to local families seeking hourly home care in Buckingham.

What carers earn around Buckingham

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 84 carers in the area

£18.80–£21.50 per hour

Overnight care

Based on 71 carers in the area

£17–£19.80 per hour

Live-in care

Based on 2529 carers in the area

£145–£160 per day

What you would take home in Buckingham

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

£420

25 hours a week, before tax

A month

£1,820

The same week across a calendar month, before tax

The arithmeticA weekA month

Charged for your time

£21 an hour x 25

£525

£2,275

PrimeCarers commission

20%, VAT included

- £105

- £455

You receive

£16.80 an hour

£420

£1,820

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 84 carers within 30km of Buckingham on PrimeCarers charge for this kind of work, taken from the platform when this page was last built. 11 hourly and night placements within 30km of Buckingham are open at the moment.

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

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Why carers choose PrimeCarers

Set your own rates

You’re self-employed and choose your fee; typical rates are shown as £18.80–£21.50 per hour.

Choose your hours

Pick daytime visits and build a schedule that fits your life — fewer late nights and unwanted shifts.

Meaningful, consistent work

Work locally with the same clients for continuity and real relationships in Buckingham.

Admin support & insurance

PrimeCarers handles contracts, invoicing and payments, and provides insurance while you’re working.

How it works

  1. 1

    Create your profile

    Apply in minutes, upload references and DBS (we can help if needed) and confirm your right to work.

  2. 2

    Get verified

    We check references and documentation; profiles are typically live within days once verified.

  3. 3

    Choose clients

    Browse requests, accept the clients and hours that suit you, and start visiting families in Buckingham.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Carers on PrimeCarers are self-employed and set their own rates. That means you’re responsible for your tax and National Insurance, while we support client introductions, paperwork and payments.

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

PrimeCarers provides insurance cover while you’re working with a client arranged through the platform. We’ll explain the details during onboarding so you know what’s covered.

Applying takes minutes. Once your documents and references are verified, profiles typically go live within days and families in Buckingham and nearby towns can contact you.

Ready to start earning on your own terms?

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