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Care Assistant in Cobham at Agincare

Date Posted: 1/6/2021

Job Snapshot

  • Employee Type:
    Full-time
  • Location:
    Cobham
  • Job Type:
  • Experience:
    Not Specified
  • Date Posted:
    1/6/2021

Job Description

Job Title: Care Assistant

Reference Number: 010207

Area: Woking / Region: Woking

Basic Salary: £9.50 - £9.80

Bonus:                                       

Job Description

We urgently require care assistants to support our service user with Dementia based in the Cobham area. 

Trust is the key to ensuring that our service user lives as independent a life as possible. The family desire continuity and are active in their care.

Particular attention must be paid to engaging in meaningful activity, nutrition and hydration, bathing and personal care, household tasks and accessing the community.

Shifts are:

Monday to Friday: 5 hours from 11:00 – 16:00

Saturday and Sunday, alternate weeks: 2 hours from 13:00 – 15:00 with the potential to increase weekend time scale.

We can offer you career stability as a Care Assistant at a time when there is uncertainty with careers in bar work, retail, hospitality, in a restaurant as a waiter or waitress, in sales, hairdressing or beauty. 
We can give you the job security that many other sectors can't.

Agincare offer free nationally recognised training and provide PPE above and beyond government guidelines. Experience isn’t required as our comprehensive training and support will set you on a structured career path that will help you reach your potential.

You can earn up to £9.80 per hour as a Care Assistant 

What we offer Care Assistants:

  • Fully funded professional development
  • Flexible working
  • Have a voice to share your ideas to improve and develop the service
  • Free uniform
  • Contracted Hours
  • Paid mileage
  • Long service bonus
  • Excellent career progression

You will also benefit from the following exciting offers:

  • National Health Discount Scheme (up to 60% off high street names)
  • Blue Light discount package (superb discounts on travel, leisure, entertainment and more)
  • EAP - Employee Assistance Program (offering support for employees and their families) 
  • Internal competitions to wins prizes such as vouchers, holidays, extra annual leave

Job Requirements

What will you be doing?

As a Care Assistant (Healthcare Assistant), you’ll have the satisfaction of really caring for people within their own home.

You may be offering companionship, personal care, and help with medication. You will be enabling people to remain as independent as possible within a safe environment, participating in activities and becoming valued within the working environment.

What an Excellent Care Assistant (Health Care Assistant) looks like:

  • A caring nature and desire to make a difference in someone’s life
  • The right to work in the UK
  • A good level of English – both written and spoken
  • Ideally a full, clean driving licence and your own vehicle
  • Approachable and supportive of individuals

About Us:

  • Family business that has been providing reliable and professional care since 1986
  • One of the largest care groups in England with over 3500 staff
  • 90% of our customers rate us as excellent or great

Find out more about why Agincare is a great company to work for and the different care home jobs, home care jobs and live-in care jobs currently available.