Self-employed carers wanted

Private Carer Jobs in Queensferry

Set your own rates — typical range £18.80–£20 per hour. Choose clients, hours and your 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

Join a local network of self-employed carers offering hourly home care in Queensferry and the surrounding communities. You’ll be visiting clients in their own homes to help with personal care, meals, medication prompts, light household tasks and local errands. You choose which clients to accept, the hours you work and the area you cover, whether that’s central Queensferry or nearby towns such as North Queensferry, Inverkeithing, Rosyth, Dalgety Bay, Broxburn and Dunfermline. Right now, 4 families are currently looking for care in the wider area.

This kind of work suits experienced carers who value predictable daytime visits and one-to-one support. Many carers move to PrimeCarers after agency work because they want greater control over how they work and who they visit. Typical roles are hourly home care visits during the day; you can set your own rates and availability to fit family life or other commitments. Rates commonly sit within £18.80–£20 per hour, with hourly and live-in ranges shown on the platform as £18.80–£20 per hour and £144–£160 per day respectively.

PrimeCarers finds clients for you and takes care of the paperwork: we handle contracts, invoicing and payments, and we include insurance while you work on assignments we introduce. You remain self-employed, so you invoice through your profile and choose the jobs that suit you across Queensferry and nearby areas. Many carers cover parts of Edinburgh for regular daytime visits as well as the towns around the Forth.

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. You’ll create a short profile, upload documents and add your preferred hours and service area. Applying takes minutes and, once your documents are verified, profiles typically go live within days — ready for families in Queensferry and beyond to contact you.

If you’re looking to move away from strict rotas and agency-imposed rates, PrimeCarers puts you back in charge while giving you administrative support. You’ll be choosing daytime home visits that match your skills and availability, working across Queensferry, nearby towns and parts of Edinburgh when you want to. Create your profile today and see how quickly local families can start finding you.

What carers earn around Queensferry

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 22 carers in the area

£18.80–£20 per hour

Overnight care

Based on 21 carers in the area

£17–£20 per hour

Live-in care

Based on 201 carers in the area

£144–£160 per day

What you would take home in Queensferry

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 22 carers within 30km of Queensferry on PrimeCarers charge for this kind of work, taken from the platform when this page was last built. 4 hourly and night placements within 30km of Queensferry are open at the moment.

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

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Why carers choose PrimeCarers in Queensferry

Set your own rates

Stay self-employed and choose the hourly rate that suits you. Many carers use the typical range £18.80–£20 per hour as a guide.

Flexible daytime hours

Pick visits that fit your life. Choose clients, times and the service area across Queensferry and nearby towns.

Meaningful one-to-one care

Provide personal care, help with meals, medication prompts and errands — build lasting relationships with families.

Admin and insurance covered

PrimeCarers handles contracts, invoicing and payments. Insurance is included while you work on assignments we introduce.

How it works

  1. 1

    Create your profile

    Apply in minutes, upload your documents and list your availability and service area.

  2. 2

    Get matched and agree terms

    We introduce families; you choose which requests to accept and set your own rates and visit pattern.

  3. 3

    Start visiting and get paid

    PrimeCarers handles contracts and payments, and includes insurance while you’re working on matches we make.

Frequently asked questions

You remain self-employed. That means you set your own rates, choose clients and manage your diary while using PrimeCarers for client introductions and admin support.

You need at least one year of professional care experience, an Enhanced DBS check (we can help arrange one), the right to work in the UK and verifiable references before your profile goes live.

PrimeCarers handles contracts, invoicing and payments for assignments we introduce, and includes insurance while you’re working on those assignments.

Applying only takes minutes. Once your documents are verified, profiles typically go live within days and families in Queensferry and nearby areas can begin contacting you.

Yes. You choose your service area, clients and hours — whether you want to work across Queensferry, into parts of Edinburgh or in nearby towns.

Ready to start earning on your own terms?

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