Care Assistant

Sage Care Limited; Dudley; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Sage Care as a Care Assistant, where every day presents meaningful challenges and opportunities to make a difference in clients' lives. This role requires compassion, resilience, and a willingness to learn, offering a chance to support individuals in their homes while growing your career in social care.

Benefits

Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay

Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement

Death in Service Payment

Benefits and wellbeing platform

28 days annual leave (pro rata)

Refer a friend scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Eligible for Blue Light Card

Qualifications

• No prior social care experience required.
• Ability to care and show compassion needed.
• Willingness to develop new skills as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with personal care tasks including bathing, dressing, and medication management.
• Support clients with practical tasks like shopping and housework.
• Follow individual care plans to ensure clients' needs are met.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Willingness to learn

Job description

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Access to vehicle required due to the geographical location and nature of the role

We’re creating brighter days. Fresh challenges. Exciting opportunities. Plenty of ups, downs, and curveballs. With a career as a Care Assistant at Sage Care, part of City & County, every day will be different. Each will offer you the opportunity to do meaningful and rewarding work that makes a real difference to our clients’ lives and your career.

What you’ll get

• Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay
• Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement
• Death in Service Payment
• Benefits and wellbeing platform
• 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
• Refer a friend scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eligible for Blue Light Card, with access to more than 15,000 discounts nationwide

Job Description

What you’ll do

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.

Qualifications

What you’ll need

You don’t need any social care experience to apply for this role. We’re more interested in your compassion and ability to care. You’ll need to be resilient too and willing to learn new skills and develop your knowledge as part of a close-knit team.