Care Assistant

Customcare; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking compassionate Care Assistants to join their fantastic team in Gillingham. In this rewarding role, you'll provide essential support to clients in their homes, helping them maintain their independence and dignity. Your responsibilities will include assisting with personal care, medication reminders, and practical tasks like shopping and housekeeping. With flexible hours, paid training, and numerous perks, this opportunity is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the care industry. Join a company that values your contributions and offers a world of career opportunities!

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Enhanced paternity pay

Death in Service Payment

Well-being Platform

28 days annual leave

Cycle to work scheme

Refer a friend scheme

Blue Light Card eligibility

Flexible hours

Paid training

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a care assistant role is useful but not mandatory.
• Skills needed include compassion, resilience, and a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with personal care and daily tasks to maintain their independence.
• Follow individual care plans and provide companionship to prevent loneliness.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Willingness to learn

Job description

Location: Gillingham and surrounding areas

Pay Rate: £12.21 per hour plus paid mileage

Shifts:

• 6-7am to 11am
• 11am to 2.30pm
• 3.30pm to 6.30pm
• 6.30pm to 10pm

Every other weekend required.

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 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 & 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.