Care Assistant

Company Description

🌟 Care Assistants (Extra Care Scheme) – Join Our Fred Millard Court Team! 🌟

✨ We’re creating brighter days. Fresh challenges. Exciting opportunities. Plenty of ups, downs, and curveballs. ✨

With a career as an Extra Care Assistant at Care By Us (Part of the CCH Group), every day will be different from the next. Each will offer you the opportunity to do meaningful and rewarding work that makes a real difference to our residents' lives. 💙

🏡 What is an Extra Care Scheme?

Unlike domiciliary care where you travel from house to house, this role is based entirely on-site at Fred Millard Court!

Set in the heart of Bedwell, Stevenage, Fred Millard Court is a beautiful Flexicare community of 50 flats and bungalows for residents aged 60 and over. It is a vibrant, supportive environment featuring a sun terrace, resident lounges, a hairdressing salon, and a daily lunch club.

As part of our on-site care team, you will support residents to maintain their independence within their own flats, while being part of a close-knit, lively community.

📍 Work Location & Commute

You will be based at a single location for your entire shift:

• Fred Millard Court, Bedwell, Stevenage

• Easy Access: Just a 0.25-mile walk from the town centre, with a bus stop only 100 yards away!

• 🚗 Free on-site parking is available for staff. (No driving licence is required for this role as there is no travel between clients!)

💷 Competitive Pay

We believe great work deserves great pay. You will be paid at the following tiered rates:

• 💰 Weekdays (Mon-Fri): £13.15 per hour

• 💰 Saturdays: £13.55 per hour

• 💰 Sundays: £13.55 per hour

⏰ Shift Patterns & Contract Security

We are currently looking for dedicated individuals to cover specific shift patterns across the scheme, including mandatory weekend work.

• Early Shifts: 07:00 AM – 3:00 PM (0700 - 1500)

• Late Shifts: 3:00 PM – 10:00 PM (1500 - 2200)

(Please note: Due to the specific personal care needs of our current residents at Fred Millard Court, we are specifically seeking female applicants for these vacancies. This is an occupational requirement exempt under the Equality Act 2010).

💫 Why Join Care By Us?

At Care By Us, no two days are ever the same. Each shift brings rewarding moments, meaningful connections, and the chance to touch lives in lasting ways.

We see extraordinary achievements every day thanks to the talent and dedication of our people. As the largest care company in the UK, we’re transforming the care industry — using smart technology, innovation, and compassion to deliver the very best support. We offer clear progression pathways, and many of our management team actually started with us as Care Assistants!

Job Description

💙 What You’ll Be Doing

As an Extra Care Professional, you’ll deliver high-quality, person-centred support that prioritises dignity, respect, and compassion.

✨ Your key responsibilities include:

• 💧 Personal care (bathing, dressing, managing incontinence, toileting, and grooming within the residents' flats or the assisted bathing facility)

• 💊 Medication support (providing reminders and safe administration)

• 🍲 Nutrition & Socialising (assisting with breakfast/dinner, and supporting the daily lunch clubs and coffee mornings!)

• 🚶 Mobility and equipment support (getting around safely, transfers, and using mobility aids)

• 🧺 Light Housekeeping (making/changing beds, laundry, and light cleaning)

• 💬 Companionship and emotional support (providing a listening ear and engaging in scheme activities)

✨ You’ll also:

• 🤝 Encourage social engagement in the communal lounges and gardens

• 👀 Monitor health, utilize the Careline alarm service when needed, and report changes to management

• 📝 Maintain accurate documentation of care provided

• 🛡️ Respond to on-site emergencies safely and effectively

Qualifications

🦸 What You’ll Need (Besides a Cape!)

Hold onto your hats, because you don't need any social care experience to join our merry band of care crusaders! 💪

We offer full, paid training — all you need is a heart of gold, reliability, and the drive to make a difference.

• ✅ Genuine compassion and respect for others (kindness goes a long way!)

• ✅ Strong communication and listening skills (that would make a UN diplomat jealous)

• ✅ A positive, can-do attitude (as resilient as a rubber band and eager to learn)

• ✅ Problem-solving abilities

• ✅ Reliability and a caring, supportive nature

• ✅ The right to work in the UK (sorry, time travellers from the future need not apply)

✨ If you’re kind-hearted, dependable, and ready to make every day a little brighter — you’ve already got what it takes to be a Care Assistant hero!

Additional Information

🎁 What You’ll Receive

Here’s what makes being part of Care By Us truly special:

• 🏆 Group Recognition Programmes: Be celebrated for your hard work with our internal 'Care Heroes' awards!

• 🌼 28 days annual leave (pro rata)

• 🎉 Enhanced weekend & bank holiday pay

• 👶 Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay

• 🍼 Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement

• 💰 Pension scheme & Death in Service Payment

• 💆 Benefits and wellbeing platform

• 🎉 Refer a friend scheme (£300 bonus!)

• 🚴 Cycle to work scheme

• 🤝 Paid Shadowing Shifts with an experienced mentor!

• 🎓 Fully funded NVQs/Diplomas in Health & Social Care – we will pay for you to upskill!

🚀 Ready to Join Our Team of Everyday Heroes?

If you're ready to embark on a care adventure that's more exciting than a rollercoaster ride through a chocolate factory, apply today and become part of our mission to transform care!

💙 Care By Us (Part of the CCH Group) is an equal opportunities employer.