Care Assistant

Job Description

💙 What You’ll Be Doing

As a 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)

• 💊 Medication support (collecting prescriptions, providing reminders, and administration)

• 🍲 Meal preparation and nutrition (preparing tasty meals and mealtime assistance)

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

• 🧺 Housekeeping (making/changing beds, laundry, tidying, light cleaning, and emptying commodes)

• 💬 Companionship and emotional support (providing a listening ear, engaging conversations, and outings)

✨ You’ll also:

• 🤝 Encourage social engagement and family connections

• 👀 Monitor health and report any changes to healthcare professionals and family

• 📝 Maintain accurate documentation of care provided

• 🛡️ Respond to emergencies safely and effectively

• 🧩 Work collaboratively with families and the wider care team

Qualifications

🦸 What You’ll Need (Besides a Cape and Superpowers!)

Hold onto your hats — ideally, you’ll have at least 6 months of social care experience to join our merry band of care crusaders!

But here’s the truth: what matters most to us is your heart of gold and your ability to sprinkle kindness wherever you go. You’ll need to be as resilient as a rubber band and as eager to learn as a curious kitten. Don’t worry — we’ll help you level up your skills and knowledge as part of our close-knit (and delightfully quirky) team.

While experience is a bonus, we’re really looking for people who:

• 💙 Have compassion oozing from every pore.
• 🗣️ Can communicate like a UN diplomat.
• 🧩 Possess problem-solving powers that would impress Mother Teresa.
• 👵 Are committed to respectful, high-quality care that would make your gran proud.
• ✅ Have the right to work within the UK (❌ Please note: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship).

✅ Are willing and able to travel between clients within the local community

Additional Information

🎁 What You’ll Receive

• ✨ Guaranteed Hours available for the right candidates – giving you the security of regular work.
• 🎓 Fully Funded Qualifications: Ongoing support to achieve your NVQ / Diploma Level 2 & 3 in Health and Social Care!
• 🚀 Career Progression Opportunities: Clear pathways to advance into Senior Care, Coaching, or Management roles.
• 🎓 Paid training – comprehensive online and face-to-face induction.
• 👶 Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity pay
• 🛡️ Death in Service payment
• 💰 Pension scheme
• 💆 Benefits & Well-being platform
• 🌴 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
• 🚲 Cycle to Work scheme
• 🤝 Refer-a-Friend bonus (£300 per referral)
• 🛍️ Blue Light Card eligibility (exclusive discounts!)
• ⏱️ Flexible hours – part-time and full-time
• 🚗 Local work with paid mileage
• 🎉 Enhanced pay for weekends & bank holidays
• 📱 Access to our in-house app
• 🏢 The backing of the largest care company in the UK
• ✅ No experience required

🚀 Ready to Join Our Team of Everyday Heroes?

If you’re ready for a career adventure that’s more exciting than a rollercoaster ride through a chocolate factory, apply today and become part of our journey to transform care.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.