Care Assistant – Benfleet
Salary: Full time Care Assistant – £13.00-£13.75 per hour
Mileage: 45p per mile
Areas: This role covers areas Benfleet, Basildon, Canvey Island, Wickford, and Rayleigh.
Join our team and make a difference to people’s lives! Caring isn’t just a job, it’s an opportunity to support people in their own homes, offer companionship, promote independence, build relationships, and brighten their day.
Pay breakdown and shift patterns:
* Daytime shifts 7am-4pm, evening shifts 4pm-10pm.
* You will be required to work alternate weekends.
* Under 25 hours: £12.50 day, £12.75 evening, £13.00 weekend day, £13.25 weekend evening.
* Full time (over 25 hours): £13.00 day, £13.25 evening, £13.50 weekend day, £13.75 weekend evening.
* We work our shift patterns around your availability!
Benefits:
* Fully paid training: Receive all the training you need to succeed as a Care Assistant, including in-house training delivered by our Head of Learning and Development, followed by shadow shifts, and continued mentoring and professional development.
* Flexible working hours: We have both part-time and full-time roles available, and offer daytime, evening, and weekend shifts to help you choose a schedule that works for you.
* Paid Mileage: 45p per mile for your travel between calls.
* Paid DBS check and uniform: Your background check and uniform is fully covered by Anglian Care, allowing a smooth onboarding process.
* Early pay app: access 35% of your wages as soon as you complete a shift.
* Career progression opportunities: We offer a career progression pathway and free NVQ enrolment so you can develop your skills and advance within the company.
* Team events and activities: Participate in team activities to strengthen bonds with colleagues, including office bake sales, charity fundraisers, and annual Christmas parties.
* Recognition programmes: We celebrate your amazing work and dedication with unsung hero of the month awards, incentives, and competitions.
* Outstanding management team: We ensure you feel supported at work and have been rated by CQC outstanding for leadership and management.
About the role:
As a community care assistant, you will care for adults in their own homes to provide practical, physical, emotional, and social support to service users to achieve their desired outcomes. Where required, this includes supporting customers with personal care tasks, such as food and fluids, toileting, and bathing, as well as medication and domestic duties whilst ensuring dignity and respect are maintained at all times.
We are looking for outgoing, career-driven individuals to join our friendly team and grow with us as a company – you can expect high rates of pay, support with your career development goals, and first-class training and support from a management team rated outstanding by CQC.
What we’re looking for:
* No experience necessary: We provide full training, so whether you’re new to care or have years of experience, we’re looking for people who are kind, caring, and committed to improving the lives of vulnerable adults.
* Driving license: You must have a UK driving license and your own car with business insurance.
* Flexibility: You should be comfortable to work a mixture of daytimes, evenings, and alternate weekends.
* Kindness and compassion: A caring and supportive individual who is passionate about providing a high level of care and support to vulnerable people.
* Communication skills: You must be able to build positive working relationships with colleagues and customers.
This role requires you to engage in regulated activity with adults and therefore an enhanced criminal record check will be requested from the DBS upon conditional job offer.
This role requires you to work in Regulated Activity. It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group (i.e. adults at risk, children, or both).
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