Care Assistant

Cera Care; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Cera Care is recruiting Care Assistants in Gateshead to provide essential support to clients at home. This rewarding role emphasizes compassion and kindness, offering flexible hours and comprehensive benefits, including guaranteed hours, holiday pay, and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Guaranteed hours available

Enhanced bank holiday rate

Free DBS/PVG

Company mobile phone

Paid mileage between visits

Access to WeCare discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave policies

Career development opportunities

Wellbeing support services

Referral bonus of £500

Qualifications

• No prior experience required, just a caring attitude.
• Weekend and evening availability preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal care including continence support.
• Cook or prepare hot meals and help with domestic tasks.
• Provide companionship and reassurance.

Skills

Compassion

Patience

Understanding

Job description

Join Cera as a Care Assistant in Gateshead. You'll be supporting us on our mission to transform social care and enable more people to live longer, healthier and happier lives in their own homes.

Are you kind? A people person? Love making a difference in people's lives? Then we can offer you the perfect role as a Carer, where you will genuinely make a difference, every day! No experience is required.

We're recruiting part-time and full-time care assistants to support our clients at home and have guaranteed hours available. We have work available in Gateshead, Dunston, Blaydon, Whickham, Rowlands Gill, Crawcook and surrounding areas.

We have 3-11pm shifts available- you'll usually have every other weekend off for work-life balance.

The advertised rate is an average hourly rate that includes both your base pay and compensation for travel time. Your overall pay will vary depending on the specific hours worked and travel time undertaken.

We are particularly looking for people with weekend and evening availability, with overtime available midweek.

Our benefits include:

• Guaranteed hours are available
• Enhanced bank holiday rate
• Holiday pay and pension scheme
• Free DBS/PVG, company mobile phone and uniform provided
• Paid mileage between visits at 30p
• Access to our benefits & discounts platform WeCare, alongside being eligible for the Blue Light Card Scheme - offering you thousands of discounts on high street shopping, your weekly food shop, eating out and family activities.
• Enhanced maternity (12 weeks full pay), paternity and parental leave policies
• An industry-leading career development pathway, including the Care Certificate and NVQ's, there is plenty of opportunity for progression - 50% of our salaried roles are filled internally.
• Wellbeing support - including employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders, healthcare cash plan and free eye tests & contribution to the cost of glasses.
• Extra earnings through our referral scheme Care Friends - £500 per referral

Join Our Caring Community

Whether you already have previous professional experience, you've cared for a loved one or you simply enjoy supporting others, your compassion, patience, and understanding are exactly what we need. It's your values and kindness that matter most and we will provide all the training you need.

Your responsibilities may include assisting with personal care including continence support, washing and dressing, managing medications, cooking or preparing hot meals, and helping with domestic tasks. But your true impact lies in the companionship, reassurance, and joy you bring to the lives of those you care for.

Cera makes caring easier with Cera Tech

We've brought homecare into the 21st century, by developing technology that streamlines administrative tasks, enhances outcomes, and allows you to focus on the most important part of your role – caring for our clients. Our predictive technology and risk alerts empower our care teams to make informed decisions and act quickly, resulting in fewer hospitalisations and reduced fall risks for those we care for. You really can care better as a member of our team.

If you are looking for a truly rewarding role, where the companionship and comfort you provide will bring smiles and a sense of safety to those you care for - then apply today!

Please note this role is subject to a DBS check and you must have the right to work in the UK.

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Created on 25/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom