PrimeCarers — self-employed care work
Visiting Carer Jobs in Hackney Marshes
Daytime, hourly home care visits — set your own rates from £18.80–£20 per hour and choose your hours
- 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
Looking for daytime visiting carer work around Hackney Marshes? These are self-employed, hourly home care visits: helping people in their own homes with personal care, meal support, medication prompts and local errands. You’ll meet different people on short daytime calls and build ongoing relationships in the community.
Right now, 220 families are currently looking for care in the wider area.
This role suits experienced carers who want more control than agency life often allows. On PrimeCarers you set your own rates, choose your clients, hours and service area, and work as a self-employed carer while we find clients and handle contracts, invoicing and payments. Insurance is included while you work. If you travel across east London you’ll find work near places like Hackney Wick, Homerton, Maryland, Old Ford, Lea Bridge and Leyton and across Hackney too.
Typical daytime visiting tasks include:
- Personal care: washing, dressing and toileting support as agreed.
- Meals: preparing and serving light meals or hot drinks.
- Medication: reminding and observing, following clients’ care plans.
- Errands and appointments: shopping, collecting prescriptions or local accompaniment.
- Companionship: gentle conversation, encouragement and check-ins to keep people safe at home.
Pay and flexibility are central. You decide your hourly rate and can accept visits that suit your day-to-day life. Typical rates for visiting carers in this area are £18.80–£20 per hour. PrimeCarers handles the paperwork and payments so you can focus on care. Applying takes minutes and profiles typically go live within days of verification.
To join you need at least one year of professional care experience, an Enhanced DBS check (PrimeCarers can help arrange one), the right to work in the UK and verifiable references. We’ll guide you through verification so you’re ready to accept shifts across Hackney Marshes and neighbouring communities.
If you’re used to agency routines but want clearer control over who you work with and when, this is a simple, reliable way to keep delivering excellent care without the admin overhead. Create your profile, choose the daytime visits that suit you, and start building a local client list around Hackney Marshes.
What carers earn around Hackney Marshes
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 1320 carers in the area
£18.80–£20 per hour
Overnight care
Based on 1125 carers in the area
£17–£19 per hour
Live-in care
Based on 2154 carers in the area
£145–£160 per day
What you would take home in Hackney Marshes
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 1320 carers within 30km of Hackney Marshes on PrimeCarers charge for this kind of work, taken from the platform when this page was last built. 220 hourly and night placements within 30km of Hackney Marshes are open at the moment.
Register as a carer to set your own rate and apply for work around Hackney Marshes.
Register as a carerWhy carers choose PrimeCarers in Hackney Marshes
You set your rates
Work as a self-employed carer and set your own pay. Typical local rates are £18.80–£20 per hour.
Flexible hours
Choose daytime visits that fit your week and select clients and areas you want to work in.
Meaningful, local work
Short visits offering personal care, meals, medication prompts and companionship in clients’ homes.
Admin, contracts and insurance handled
PrimeCarers finds clients, manages contracts and invoicing, and provides insurance while you work.
How it works
- 1
Create your profile
Apply online in minutes, add experience and references, and request an Enhanced DBS if needed.
- 2
Get matched
We introduce you to families in Hackney Marshes and nearby areas. You choose which clients to accept.
- 3
Start visiting
Accept visits, deliver care and get paid — PrimeCarers handles contracts, invoicing and payments for you.
Frequently asked questions
Being self-employed means you set your own rates, choose the clients and hours you accept, and manage your timetable. PrimeCarers introduces clients and manages contracts and payments, but you remain responsible for your working practice and tax obligations as a self-employed carer.
Visits focus on practical, hourly home care: personal care, meal preparation, medication prompts, light errands and companionship. Each client’s needs are clearly shared before you accept a booking.
You 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’ll support you through verification so your profile can go live.
You agree your hourly rate directly on your profile. PrimeCarers handles invoicing and payments on your behalf and provides insurance while you’re working with a client introduced through the platform.
Applying takes minutes and, once verified, profiles typically go live within days. You can begin choosing visits around Hackney Marshes and neighbouring towns as soon as you’re active.
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 Hackney Marshes through PrimeCarers. Set your rate, choose your clients, and let us handle the admin.