Care Assistant/Driver

2 weeks ago

Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom South East Employers Full time £20,433 - £26,573 per year
  • Full Time
  • Part Time
  • Portsmouth
  • Posted 10 hours ago
  • £ / Year
  • Closes: 9 January 2026

Portsmouth City Council
Local Government

Care Assistant/Driver
Salary: Band
4 – £25,201 – £26,473 p.a. (£20,433 – £21,464 pro rata for 30 hours)

1 x 30 hours per week Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 08:00 – 16:00pm

1 x 30 hours per week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 08.00 – 16.00pm

Please indicate on your application which role you are applying for.

What Is The Role
Royal Albert Centre is a day centre offering innovative day care for older people with dementia and high dependency needs. It is an exciting place to be for service users and staff and has the facilities to promote healthy living and wellbeing to enable older people to maintain independent living.

Using a person-centred approach, you will look after the physical, emotional, cultural and social needs of service users. This will include personal care, assisting service users with their meals and drinks and all aspects of daily living. Part of your role will involve activity planning and provision, thus promoting individual mental health and wellbeing.

You will be key worker to specific individuals taking responsibility to record and communicate to the assistant managers to ensure all care plans are updated and current.

This role will also include driving and escorting service users to and from the unit and out on planned trips.

You will be looking after the needs of a diverse group of service users with a wide range of care needs and this will include some moving and handling and personal care duties.

Who is the person?
You will have patience and an understanding of the importance of individuals dignity, privacy and choice when meeting the needs of older people who have a diagnosis of dementia/cognitive impairment. With a basic knowledge of IT systems, the ability to converse at ease with service users and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post. With experience in a caring role as a formal paid or unpaid carer you will be flexible and adaptable to be able to take part in bus driving and escort duties. With good written skills to record service users information, you will be able to deal with emergencies in a calm manner whilst being able to follow policy and procedures such as medication administration, health and safety etc. A full driving licence. D1 category desirable but not essential and the ability to pass the MIDAS minibus test is essential to enable you to undertake the role (to be eligible for the MiDAS you must be 21 years of age or older).

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