Care Assistant

Care By Us Ltd; Watford; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading care company as a Care Assistant, where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to make a difference in people's lives. You'll provide essential support to clients in their homes, assisting with personal care and daily tasks. With flexible hours, competitive pay, and a range of benefits, this role offers a fulfilling career path in the care industry, even without prior experience. Embrace the chance to learn, grow, and contribute to a compassionate team dedicated to transforming care.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay

Enhanced paternity pay

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

• No social care experience needed, focus on compassion and learning.
• Ability to work as part of a close-knit team.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Willingness to learn

Job description

Brighter days. Fresh challenges. Exciting opportunities. Plenty of ups, some downs, and a few curveballs. At Care By Us, every day is different. Every day offers you the opportunity to do meaningful and rewarding work that changes people's lives.

We support service users in the following locations across Hertfordshire.

AREA OF WORK IN AND AROUND HEMEL, BUSHEY AND RADLETT

We welcome applications from drivers as due to the nature of the work you will have to travel via car to care for the people we support.

Pay Rate:£13.50 - £15.65 per hour plus 30p mileage.

Various shifts available - Full time or part time hours available!

Seven days a week,

EVENING – 2:00 pm – 10:00/11:00 pm

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.

Job Description

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

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. The care assistant skills and attributes needed are:

• Compassion
• Resilience
• A willingness to learn.

Additional Information

Why choose us?

We see extraordinary achievements happen every day thanks to the talent and commitment of our people. We want to transform the care industry by working smarter, using innovative tech and driving forward positive change. As the largest care company in the UK, we have the size and success to offer you a world of career opportunity, choice and security. Join us on our journey and continue yours.

As a Care Assistant, you'll recieve:

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

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.