Care Assistant

We’re creating brighter days. Fresh challenges. Exciting opportunities. Plenty of ups, downs, and curveballs. With a career as a Care Assistant at Abacare, 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 client’s lives and your career. 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.

Responsibilities

Support clients to live safer and supported lives in their own homes; Follow individual care plans; Assist with personal care (bathing, dressing, managing incontinence, using toilet); Support clients with medication; Help with practical tasks like shopping, mealtimes and housework

Requirements

Access to vehicle required; Compassion and ability to care; Resilience; Willing to learn new skills and develop knowledge

Benefits

Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay; Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement; Death in Service Payment; Pension scheme; Benefits and wellbeing 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; Travel time and mileage paid; 45p per mile fuel allowance