Care Assistant - Southend
Salary: Care Assistant - £12.85-£13.30ph
Milage: 45p per mile
Areas: This role covers Southend
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-3pm, evening shifts 3pm-10pm.
- You will be required to work alternate weekends.
- £12.85 day, £12.90 evening, £13.20 weekend day, £13.30 weekend evening
- 45p per mile for petrol between visits.
- 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.
- Weekly payroll: you will be paid each week for the care you deliver.
- Paid DBS check and uniform: Your background check and uniform is fully covered by Ashley 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 skydives, and annual Christmas party.
- Recognition programmes: We celebrate your amazing work and dedication with unsung hero of the month awards, incentives and competitions.
- Refer a friend bonus: Earn £150 each time you successfully refer someone for a role at Ashley Care.
- Supportive management team: We ensure you feel supported at work and receive regular mentoring and supervisions.
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.
Ashley Care has led from the front in the care sector since 1987, and in homecare specifically since 2003. We are a family-run company with a strong family ethos. We offer flexible working hours to fit around our staff and their families. Unlike many home care providers, we operate a weekly payroll, so you are renumerated quicker for the work you do. Delivering care throughout the Southend Borough allows us to create small, focused areas of care needs, meaning less travel time and greater efficiency for staff working out in the community. Whether you are new to social care or an experienced professional, we have training programmes to support your ongoing professional development.
Take a look at our Facebook page for frequent updates on what our brilliant care team are getting up to! We make it a priority to ensure our staff feel supported and trusted, and often reward them for the amazing work they do in our community.
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 care and support to vulnerable people.
- Communication skills: You must be able to build positive working relationships with colleagues and customers.
Our ICARE values:
At Ashley Care we hold our own “I CARE” values. We are committed to values based recruitment, and ensure that all members of our team share our workplace values.
Inclusive - We are committed to providing an inclusive service for those we care for and those in our team. We understand and respect that people have different needs. We celebrate diversity and tackle discrimination to create a safe and inclusive environment, which supports human rights, equality, and empowerment.
Collaboration - We are committed to quality kind and compassionate care and give those we care for our full attention and support. We value collaboration and working as a team. We display empathy to those we care for and others on our team and use self-awareness to recognise the impact of our behaviours. Identifies problems at the earliest opportunity and thinks creatively in order to solve them.
Accountability - By listening, respecting, and communicating effectively, we are able to build two-way relationships with those we work with and care for that are based on trust. We do the right thing and act with credibility, accountability, and professionalism. Takes responsibility for own performance, identifying areas to improve and actively seeks out ways to develop these.
Respect - We act with compassion, honesty, and respect people’s right to choose how they would like to live and be cared for. We treat people with respect and dignity regardless of their culture, religion, race, age, or disability. We recognise and appreciate the contribution of our team and communicate with those we care for in a polite, clear, and open way.
Effective - Effectively manages customer expectations and responds to their needs in a timely and caring manner. We are committed to delivering high-quality care which means continuously learning and improving our service. We gather and share feedback to identify ways we can improve to better meet the needs of our team and service users. We support and mentor others to enable them to learn new skills. We are willing to embrace new ways of working and new technology, to improve our services and add value to the care we provide.
Ready to make a difference?
Call our recruitment team to find out more!
01702 343789
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).
Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: £12.85-£13.30 per hour
Licence/Certification:
- UK Driving Licence (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
