Care Assistant

Care Assistant
You must live in North Somerset to be considered for the role
Are you looking for your something? That ideal role where you know every day you’ll be making a difference to others.
If so, we would like to speak to you. Joining our team means joining a collective of people who all share a passion for care and kindness.
We are a multi award winning care provider in North Somerset with a passion for doing things differently.
We operate six specialist home care services across our business, encouraging our team to grow and progress to achieve their goals.
As a Care Assistant, you will be part of a community-based team offering the highest levels of care and support to our clients, including:
* Administering medication
* Food and beverage preparation
* Assisting with personal care
* Following clients care plans
* Manual handling using specialist equipment
* Providing support and companionship to your clients
If you have never worked in care before that is not an issue. We provide full and ongoing training from day 1, ensuring you have all the knowledge needed to become an amazing carer. If you work in retail, engineering, or any other sector, but would like a new challenge, this is your chance to try something new, where every day you will feel an amazing level of satisfaction knowing you have made an amazing difference to others.
We care about our team, and have created a list of perks that are unmatched in the sector, including:
- A fixed 2 weekly rota built around you. You will have a week 1, week 2 rota built around you availability, with morning shifts from 07:00-14:00 and afternoons from 16:00-22:00 you will always know what days and times you are working. Due to the nature of the role, weekend working is required, but you will only be working 1 in every 2 weekends.
- Fully paid visit times, not minute by minute. In the event of you finishing a visit a couple of minutes early, you will not be penalised, and will still be paid for the full visit time.
- Paid travel time between appointments. Your time is as important to us as it is to you, so you will be paid as you travel between clients.
- 45p per mile mileage. The highest you can be paid for mileage without paying tax on it. We also will pay your mileage home from your last call. This averages at around an extra £1,900 per year for someone working 30 hours a week.
- A new joining bonus of £1,000 to welcome you to the team.
- Proud to care bonus, paid every 6 months and worth up to £1,400 per year extra, as a thank you for being so amazing.
- Scheduled to work on a bank holiday? We pay double time on bank holidays, earn £25.20 per hour when working these days.
- Receive up to 33 days paid holiday per year depending on your length of service.
- Do you know others looking for a new career? From day 1 with us you will be part of our employee referral program, earning yourself an extra £250 for every person who you recommend AYC to who then starts with us.
- Funded blue light discount card, giving you hundreds of discount codes/coupons for restaurants, retail and experiences.
- Full training, and we mean full training. You will start off with a week-long classroom based induction with us, where you will learn everything you’ll need to know before heading out into community. Once you complete this you will then shadow one of our experiences carers to put what you’ve learned into practice, before being signed off for lone working.
- Fully funded Health and Social Care qualifications and study support.
- Receive a company phone and starter pack, so you do not have to use your own data and minutes whilst working.
- Receive a free professional uniform.
- We will help you with claiming back on uniform tax relief, worth up to £125 per year.
- A company funded employee assistance program, with 24 hour a day mental health, financial and legal support at your fingertips.
- Our offices are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There is always someone available if you need to talk.
So what are you waiting for? This is your sign to apply today.
*Access Your Care does NOT offer UK VISA sponsorship
*Cycling and walking routes available only to those who live in Weston-super-Mare or Worle