Care Support Assistant

Ylyw; London; On-site; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compassionate Care Support Assistant to provide essential support to clients with complex health needs in their home environment. This rewarding role offers full training, competitive pay, and the opportunity for career progression in the health and social care sector. You will play a vital role in enhancing the quality of life for clients by assisting with personal care, medication, and social activities. Join a supportive team that values your contributions and offers excellent benefits, including paid holidays and a pension scheme. If you're caring and eager to make a difference, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Good Rate of Pay

Paid Annual Holiday Leave

Pension Scheme

Full Training

Confidential Employee Assistance Helpline

Career Progression

Blue Light Membership

Refer a Friend Scheme

Online Employee Portal

Employee Feedback Surveys

Qualifications

• Good communication skills and a standard of spoken and written English required.
• Possessing a UK full driving license is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Providing personal care including toileting, washing, and dressing.
• Supporting with medication administration and attending social activities.

Skills

Communication Skills

Written English

Driving License

Experience in Care

Education

Qualification in Health and Social Care

Job description

Are you caring, compassionate and would like to make a difference to someone’s life? Then come and join us for a rewarding career in care.

We are looking for a Care Support Assistant to come and join our team to support a client based in London, Worcester Park, KT4 area who has complex health and social care needs.

Full training will be given to set you on your path to being a Care Support Assistant, where you will be paid a competitive rate of pay after completion of training which will be £15.54 for daytime hours and £16.20 for waking night hours.

This job involves a mixture of 12-hour day shifts and waking night shifts. You must be able to work a minimum of 24 hours per week.

Please note this role is supporting our client in his own home environment and our client has pets.

We offer excellent benefits such as:

• Good Rate of Pay
• Paid annual holiday leave
• Pension scheme entitlement
• Full training
• Confidential employee assistance helpline
• Opportunity to gain qualification in Health and Social Care
• Career progression
• Blue Light membership for exclusive discounts with 15,000 brand partners
• Refer a friend scheme
• Online employee portal - where information and self-service is available
• Employee feedback surveys and recognition

Your responsibilities as our Care Support Assistant will include: Providing personal care including toileting and washing and dressing, catheter care, bowel management care, cough assisting, medication administration, supporting with transfers and repositioning, maintaining nutrition and hydration and assisting to feed as required, supporting our client to attend social activities and attend appointments.

Skills and Experience required of our Care Support Assistant:

You are required to have good communication skills and a good standard of spoken and written English is required for this role. Possessing a UK full driving license and having some previous experience would be advantageous.

Your Life Your Way are committed to conducting a Safer Recruitment Process to protect the people we support. Please be aware that all our vacancies are subject to pre-employment checks e.g. DBS and references.

This role requires an Enhanced DBS check (adult and children) with a check of the barred lists. It is preferred that candidates are members of the DBS Update Service. You will be required to provide a certificate number so the status checks can be carried out.

If you would like to apply to become our Care Support Assistant, please complete our short application form and upload a copy of your CV.