Care Assistant

Job Description

💙 What You’ll Be Doing

As an Extra Care Professional, you’ll deliver high-quality, person-centred support that prioritises dignity, respect, and compassion.

✨ Your key responsibilities include:

• 💧 Personal care (bathing, dressing, managing incontinence, toileting, and grooming within the residents' flats or the assisted bathing facility)

• 💊 Medication support (providing reminders and safe administration)

• 🍲 Nutrition & Socialising (assisting with breakfast/dinner, and supporting the daily lunch clubs and coffee mornings!)

• 🚶 Mobility and equipment support (getting around safely, transfers, and using mobility aids)

• 🧺 Light Housekeeping (making/changing beds, laundry, and light cleaning)

• 💬 Companionship and emotional support (providing a listening ear and engaging in scheme activities)

✨ You’ll also:

• 🤝 Encourage social engagement in the communal lounges and gardens

• 👀 Monitor health, utilize the Careline alarm service when needed, and report changes to management

• 📝 Maintain accurate documentation of care provided

• 🛡️ Respond to on-site emergencies safely and effectively

Qualifications

🦸 What You’ll Need (Besides a Cape!)

Hold onto your hats, because you don't need any social care experience to join our merry band of care crusaders! 💪

We offer full, paid training — all you need is a heart of gold, reliability, and the drive to make a difference.

• ✅ Genuine compassion and respect for others (kindness goes a long way!)

• ✅ Strong communication and listening skills (that would make a UN diplomat jealous)

• ✅ A positive, can-do attitude (as resilient as a rubber band and eager to learn)

• ✅ Problem-solving abilities

• ✅ Reliability and a caring, supportive nature

• ✅ The right to work in the UK (sorry, time travellers from the future need not apply)

✨ If you’re kind-hearted, dependable, and ready to make every day a little brighter — you’ve already got what it takes to be a Care Assistant hero!

Additional Information

🎁 What You’ll Receive

Here’s what makes being part of Care By Us truly special:

• 🏆 Group Recognition Programmes: Be celebrated for your hard work with our internal 'Care Heroes' awards!

• 🌼 28 days annual leave (pro rata)

• 🎉 Enhanced weekend & bank holiday pay

• 👶 Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay

• 🍼 Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement

• 💰 Pension scheme & Death in Service Payment

• 💆 Benefits and wellbeing platform

• 🎉 Refer a friend scheme (£300 bonus!)

• 🚴 Cycle to work scheme

• 🤝 Paid Shadowing Shifts with an experienced mentor!

• 🎓 Fully funded NVQs/Diplomas in Health & Social Care – we will pay for you to upskill!

🚀 Ready to Join Our Team of Everyday Heroes?

If you're ready to embark on a care adventure that's more exciting than a rollercoaster ride through a chocolate factory, apply today and become part of our mission to transform care!

💙 Care By Us (Part of the CCH Group) is an equal opportunities employer.