Community Care Assistant

Main area Bank Grade Local Grades Contract Bank Hours Flexible working - Sessional Worker Contract Job ref 828-Providebank3

Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Wren House Town Chelmsford Salary £12.52 per hour, plus enhancements for weekends. Salary period Hourly Closing 17/12/2025 23:59

Job Overview
We are looking for care assistants to join our team to work flexibly across our domiciliary care service based in Chelmsford.

Successful candidates must be able to drive and must have access to a car for work.

Main duties of the job

To provide a service that will enable service users to live in their own homes safely and securely whilst following the company policies and procedures as per the staff handbook and at all times observing and respecting service users dignity, privacy and independence as far as practical.

Care Assistants must be able to communicate successfully with service users in order to understand their needs and requirements. Care Assistants must also be able to communicate with other stakeholders such as family, friends and other health care professionals.

Working for our organisation

The Workforce Solutions leaflet is attached to this vacancy, this includes the benefits which come with a contract.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The service we provide could be complex and could involve a programme of personal care and household management that is personalised for each service user in the form of a care plan. Care duties will therefore include assisting service users in a variety of tasks which are specific to each person.

Person specification

Experience
Essential criteria

• Car driver
• Care experience

Desirable criteria

• Domiciliary care experience

Further Information
How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
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• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud
Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on or

Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.