Posted Mon, 20 Feb 2023

Guardian

Basildon

Job Title: Care Assistant (Learning Disability Service)

Location Areas: Essex – Basildon, Dunton, Bulpan, West Horndon, North Benfleet, Fobbing, Wickford, Pitsea, Laindon, Langdon Hills

Visit Postcodes: SS13 (Pitsea), SS14 (Basildon), SS15 (Laindon), SS16 (Langdon Hills)

Pay Rate: £9.50 - £11.50 per hour (Sleeping Nights is £516.63 per week for 37.5 hrs daytime plus 2 sleeping nights)

Shifts available: 7am-2pm / 7am-4pm / 3pm-6:30pm / 7pm-10:30pm / 10pm-7am (plus alternate weekends preferred)

Access to vehicle required: Yes, due to the geographical location and nature of the role

Mileage: 28p

No social care experience required as specialist training will be provided!

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK

Always Kind, Always Honest, We Listen, We Learn

We’re in it together, working with you to give you the life you want!

Being a Care Assistant is more than just a job it’s a calling. Here at Guardian Homecare we have an amazing opportunity to join our friendly team. We are looking for kind, honest and compassionate Care Assistants to join the team in providing the very best care to our service users. Imagine a role where you are assisting people to remain living in their own homes and more importantly making them smile every day! If you are looking for a role that is both rewarding and fulfilling, then we need you!

Duties will include:

• Personal Care (bathing/showering/toileting/etc)
• Preparing and serving meals/snacks
• Assisting with medication
• Light domestic duties
• Companionship

Benefits:

• Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay
• Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement
• Death in Service Payment
• Free Lifeworks benefits portal membership
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Pension scheme
• Career progression
• Competitive rates of pay
• Excellent training, ongoing professional development and defined career opportunities once working with us
• 28 days annual leave (pro rata)

Key skills and attributes required:

• No previous care experience required!
• Caring, compassionate and a good listener
• An energetic, happy person who enjoys forming relationships with people
• Able to access a vehicle
• Enhanced DBS

‘APPLY TODAY’ to ‘Be one of the people that make a difference!’

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