Care Assistant

Customcare; Chichester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading care provider as a Care Assistant, where your caring and compassionate nature will shine. This role offers the chance to make a real difference in the lives of clients, helping them maintain their independence and dignity in their own homes. With flexible hours, ongoing training, and a supportive team, you will have the opportunity to grow and develop your skills in a rewarding environment. Enjoy a range of benefits including enhanced pay for weekends, paid training, and a referral scheme. If you're looking for a fulfilling career in care, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Enhanced paternity pay entitlement

Death in Service Payment

Benefits and Well-being Platform

28 days annual leave (pro rata)

Cycle to work scheme

Refer a friend scheme – earn £300 per referral!

Blue Light Card eligibility

Flexible hours

Paid training – online and face to face

Qualifications

• Compassionate attitude and resilience are essential for success in this role.
• Previous experience in a care assistant role is useful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with personal care tasks such as bathing, dressing, and medication.
• Provide companionship and support to prevent loneliness and ensure safety.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Willingness to learn

Job description

Location: Leaholme Extra Care Scheme, Chichester, PO19 7FA

Shifts:

• 2-10pm
• 9pm-7am

We are looking for candidates available to work every other weekend.

Bring your caring and compassionate attitude to our fantastic team.

As a London Care Care Assistant, you’ll deliver award-winning care to support our clients in their own homes to maintain their independence, dignity, and self-worth. Every day is different!

Benefits for our Care Assistants:

• Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay
• Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement
• Death in Service Payment
• Benefits and Well-being Platform
• 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Refer a friend scheme – earn £300 per referral!
• Blue Light Card eligibility – exclusive staff discounts at big brands for you
• Flexible hours, part and full-time available
• Local work and paid mileage
• Enhanced pay for weekends and bank holidays
• Paid training – online and face to face
• Self-development – progression opportunities
• Access to our in-house app
• Work for the largest care company in the UK!
• No experience necessary
• Book an interview at a time and date to suit you!

Job Description

Care Assistant: Role & Responsibilities

Our care assistants are the extraordinary people who do the everyday things that mean so much to our clients. Supporting them to live safer and supported lives in their own homes, you’ll follow individual care plans and assist with personal care, helping clients to bathe, dress, manage incontinence, use the toilet, and support them with their medication. You’ll also help with practical tasks like shopping, mealtimes, and housework.

• Various shifts available
• Looking for full-time and part-time care assistants
• Guaranteed hour contracts available to suit

What else you’ll help with:

• Companionship – being a friendly face & preventing loneliness
• Personal Care – all aspects of personal hygiene
• Medication – collecting prescriptions & providing reminders
• Mealtimes – preparing tasty meals
• Housekeeping – keeping their home just the way they like it
• Mobility – help with getting around

Qualifications

Care Assistant Job: Skills & Requirements

Previous experience in a care assistant role is useful, but otherwise, the care assistant skills and attributes needed are:

• Compassion
• Resilience
• A willingness to learn

Additional Information

Why choose us?

We're an equal opportunities employer. Thanks to the commitment of our health care assistants, we see extraordinary achievements happen every day. We are transforming the care industry by working smarter, using innovative tech, and driving forward positive change. As the largest care company in the UK, we have care assistant vacancies across the country, and we offer a world of career opportunity, choice, and security.