Self‑employed visiting carers wanted
Visiting Carer Jobs in Rainhill
Daytime hourly care — choose your clients, set your rates (typical range: £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
Registering takes a few minutes · How soon you start depends mostly on your DBS check
Description
PrimeCarers connects experienced, self-employed carers with families in Rainhill and across Merseyside who need trusted daytime visiting care. These are ongoing opportunities to provide hourly home care: short visits to help with personal care, meal preparation, medication prompts and errands, while keeping the person supported and safe at home. Many carers who join come from agency backgrounds and value being able to choose their clients, hours and service area.
Right now, 15 families are currently looking for care in the wider area.
Typical visiting care shifts include:
- Personal care such as washing, dressing and continence support
- Preparing meals and helping with eating
- Medication reminders and simple administration tasks within care plans
- Shopping, errands and companionship during daytime visits
On PrimeCarers you work as a self‑employed carer: you set your own rates and choose the clients you accept. The typical rate range for these visiting roles is £18.50–£20 per hour. You’ll be able to accept daytime visits across Rainhill and nearby towns such as Whiston, Prescot, Huyton, St Helens, Halewood and Widnes, making it easy to build a rota that suits your life.
Who this suits: experienced carers with at least one year of professional care experience who want more control over their working pattern. If you’re used to providing personal care with kindness and reliability, and you want to move away from fixed agency rotas, Rainhill families need carers who can offer consistent, respectful visiting support.
Requirements to join are straightforward: a minimum of 1 year’s professional care experience, an Enhanced DBS (PrimeCarers can help arrange one), the right to work in the UK and verifiable references. PrimeCarers handles contracts, invoicing and payments for you, and provides insurance while you are working with a client — so you can focus on care, not paperwork. Applying takes minutes; profiles typically go live within days of verification.
How to apply: create a profile, add your experience and references, and indicate the hours and area you’re willing to cover in Rainhill. Once verified you’ll see client introductions and can choose which matches to accept. There’s no single advertised role here — we introduce you to families looking for ongoing visiting care so you can build the work that suits you.
If you want visiting care work in Rainhill with more flexibility, clearer pay control and practical support from PrimeCarers, it’s worth a few minutes to apply and see what matches are available nearby.
What carers earn around Rainhill
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 116 carers in the area
£18.50–£20 per hour
Overnight care
Based on 105 carers in the area
£17–£18 per hour
Live-in care
Based on 1384 carers in the area
£145–£160 per day
What you would take home in Rainhill
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 116 carers within 30km of Rainhill on PrimeCarers charge for this kind of work, taken from the platform when this page was last built. 15 hourly and night placements within 30km of Rainhill are open at the moment.
Register as a carer to set your own rate and apply for work around Rainhill.
Register as a carerWhy join PrimeCarers in Rainhill
Set your own rates
You’re self‑employed and free to set the hourly rate that reflects your skill and experience.
Flexible hours
Choose daytime visits and build a schedule that fits your life and the Rainhill area you want to work in.
Meaningful home care
Support people with personal care, meals, medication prompts and errands — the local difference carers make matters.
Support & protection
PrimeCarers handles contracts, invoicing and payments, with insurance included while you work.
How it works
- 1
1. Apply in minutes
Complete a short profile with your experience, availability and references — applying only takes a few minutes.
- 2
2. Verification
We verify your references, right to work and DBS (we can help arrange an Enhanced DBS if you need one).
- 3
3. Start choosing clients
Profiles typically go live within days; you’ll see introductions and can accept the visiting care jobs that suit you.
Frequently asked questions
You join PrimeCarers as a self‑employed carer. That means you set your rates, choose clients and manage your schedule. PrimeCarers supports with introductions, contracts and payments, but you remain self‑employed for tax and working‑status purposes.
Rates vary by carer and client. The typical range for visiting carers is shown on this page as £18.50–£20 per hour. You decide your hourly rate when you set up your profile.
Yes — an Enhanced DBS is required. If you don’t have one, PrimeCarers can help you arrange it so you can start working with families in Rainhill and nearby towns.
We introduce you to families, manage contracts and invoicing, take care of payment processing and include insurance while you’re working. This reduces admin so you can focus on care.
Applying takes minutes and, once verified, profiles typically go live within days. After that you can review introductions and accept the visiting care opportunities that fit your availability in Rainhill.
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 Rainhill through PrimeCarers. Set your rate, choose your clients, and let us handle the admin.
