Care Assistant

TN United Kingdom; Chichester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Care Assistant, where you will provide essential support to clients in their homes. This role emphasizes compassion and resilience, ensuring clients maintain their independence and dignity. You'll assist with personal care, medication, and daily tasks, making a significant difference in their lives. With flexible hours and a variety of shifts available, this position offers a rewarding opportunity to contribute to the well-being of others while enjoying a supportive work environment. Embrace a career in care with a company dedicated to transforming the industry and providing exceptional service.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Enhanced paternity pay entitlement

Death in Service Payment

Benefits and Well-being Platform

28 days annual leave

Cycle to work scheme

Refer a friend scheme

Blue Light Card eligibility

Flexible hours

Paid training

Qualifications

• Experience in a care assistant role is useful but not mandatory.
• Key skills include compassion, resilience, and a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with personal care and daily living tasks.
• Provide companionship and support to prevent loneliness.
• Help with medication management and meal preparation.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Willingness to learn

Job description

Care Assistant at London Care in Chichester

Location: Leaholme, 18 Gilmore Rd, Chichester PO19 7FA

Pay Rate: £12.21 per hour

Shifts: Various shifts available

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

As a care professional, you'll get:

• 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 supporting 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 & Requirement

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.