Job Description

What can you expect from the role?

As a Professional Care Assistant, you will be required to provide personal care and practical and emotional support to clients in their own home, whilst helping them maintain their independence.

Your main daily duties will include:

• Supporting all aspects of personal hygiene

• Supporting with all aspects of medication

• Meal preparation

• Helping our clients move around their home

• Ensuring administration & reporting is carried out for each individual under your care, we provide you with a phone and App to make this simple.

Your commitment to our customers is hugely valued. In return, here's how we'll support you:

• FREE DBS Checks

• Professional Uniform

• Flexible & optional guaranteed hours contracts

• Pay rates start from £8.72 per hour (£8.90 at weekends)

• 3% Company Pension Scheme

• Paid assessment day training

• £250 bonus payment

• Work phone and app to reduce admin tasks

• Apprenticeship or Vocational Qualifications

• Mileage and Travel Time is paid

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

We're looking for People People! Our comprehensive training will give you the skills and knowledge you need, so our main focus is that you are professional, compassionate and empathetic to the needs of our service users. You'll need to be patient, willing to carry out personal hygiene tasks and be dedicated to providing outstanding levels of care. We welcome individuals to apply from a variety of backgrounds including supermarket work, hospitality, catering, retail or travel. You may already have experience as a healthcare assistant, support worker or as a night care assistant and be looking for a new opportunity. In Plymouth, being a car driver and having access to your own vehicle is essential so that you can travel quickly to service users and ensure most of your time is spent providing care to our service users.