Social Care Assistant

BJP Home Support; Saltburn by the Sea; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A local home care provider is seeking care assistants to support adults in their own homes. Responsibilities include assisting with personal grooming, daily living activities, and medication administration. The role offers flexible working hours, extensive training opportunities, and a rewarding work environment. Join a family-run company with an outstanding CQC rating and enjoy various employee benefits including competitive pay and support for well-being.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Competitive rate of pay

Extensive staff well-being programme

Training opportunities

Financial bonus from Refer-a-Friend

Employee of the month awards

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Experience in personal care and assisting with daily living activities.
• Ability to administer medication correctly.
• Flexibility in working hours including days, nights, weekends.

Responsibilities

• Assist adults with personal grooming and daily living tasks.
• Support with medication prompting and administration.

Skills

Personal grooming assistance

Medication administration

Communication skills

Flexibility in working hours

Education

NVQ level 2 (minimum)

Job description

Contracts offered to suit you and your lifestyle: zero hour, 16, 20, 24, 30, 35, 40, 45. Overtime is not compulsory but is available above contracted hours if required. Working times offered to suit you between the times of 7am - 10pm, Monday - Sunday. Staff can choose from days, nights, weekday and weekend work. Areas you could choose to work in: Eston, Normanby, Nunthorpe, Ormesby, Redcar, Guisborough, Saltburn, Marske, Skelton, Brotton, TS3, TS4 & TS1. What does the role involve? Care for adults in their own homes, assisting them with personal grooming (shaving, washing hair, styling hair, applying makeup) washing / showering / bathing, toileting, dressing, undressing, and all other aspects of daily living. Support with prompting / administering the correct medication. What BJP Home Support will offer you:

• Work for one of the only long standing (over 10 years), family‑run home care companies in Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough that has been rated outstanding by CQC, in a rewarding role
• Support one of the largest home care providers in Redcar and Cleveland
• Receive a full job description
• Competitive rate of pay
• Extensive staff well‑being programme including free counselling and support
• Flexible working hours
• Training opportunities including but not limited to NVQ level 2 (as a minimum), 3, 4 and 5 or equivalent.
• Development opportunities available to support promotion – over half of our office staff started with us as care assistants and have been promoted to their current positions. Our remaining office staff, including our manager, started with sister companies and have been promoted to their current positions.
• Financial bonus available from our Refer‑a‑Friend scheme
• Access to hundreds of leisure and retail discounts
• Free uniforms and replacements
• Free, abundant stock of PPE, including gloves, aprons, masks and visors
• Weekly COVID‑19 testing (PCR tests)
• Support to access COVID‑19 vaccine
• Free staff satchel and contents designed to support you to complete your work effectively and keep you safe
• Annual bonus
• Seasonal cards/gifts – Easter, Christmas etc
• Company mobile phone after 3‑months of employment
• Employee of the month awards
• Long service awards