Care Assistant
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FULL DESCRIPTION
Summary
Care assistants provide essential support to clients in their homes, assisting with personal care, daily living activities, and medication management. They follow individual care plans, offer practical help with tasks like shopping and housework, and focus on promoting clients' safety and independence. The role requires compassion, a willingness to learn, and the ability to work as part of a team.
- Key Responsibilities: Assisting with personal care, following care plans, helping with medication, supporting with shopping, mealtimes, and housework.
- Core Requirements: Compassion, ability to care, willingness to learn, team player
Company Description
Location:Broughton Moor, and surrounding areas
Pay Rate:£12.70 per hour and 45p per mile
Shifts available:Range of shifts available
What we offer
We’re creating brighter days. Fresh challenges. Exciting opportunities. Plenty of ups, downs, and curveballs. With a career as a Care Assistant at QCS of City & County every day will be different to the next. Each will offer you the opportunity to do meaningful and rewarding work that makes a real difference to our clients’ lives and your career.
What you’ll get
- Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay
- Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement
- Paid training and shadowing
- Uniform and PPE provided
- Death in Service Payment
- Pension scheme
- Benefits and Well-being Platform
- 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
- Refer a friend scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eligible for Blue Light Card, with access to more than 15,000 discounts nationwide.
Job Description
What you’ll do
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.
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.
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.
City and County Healthcare Group is an equal opportunities employer.