Mobile Care Assistant

**Mobile Care Assistant**

**Get a £250 joining bonus and a further £250 when you pass probation.**

**Due to our evolving care and lifestyle delivery, we are looking for passionate and like-minded individuals to join our growing care team.**

**Hours: 35** hours per week

**Hourly rate**: £12.80 per hour + Travel expenses covered and up to an additional £1.30 for working evening and weekend hours

Are you compassionate, proactive, and eager to make a difference in the lives of older adults? Join McCarthy Stone as a Mobile Care and Support Assistant and play a key role in enhancing the quality of life for our homeowners in our beautiful purpose built developments.

**About the Role**: Whilst this is a field-based role to grow our care service, there will be a requirement to travel between our developments and parking will be available at each site. You’ll work closely with the Field Care Supervisor, House Managers and Care Manager to deliver person bespoke care and lifestyle services, from assisting with personal care, household tasks to offering companionship and supporting wellbeing activities.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- ** Support Individual Homeowners**: Provide personalised care, including help with daily activities, personal hygiene, and medication assistance. Offer domestic support such as cleaning, shopping, and managing household tasks.
- ** Housekeeping**: Maintain communal areas within our developments to a high standard, ensuring a clean, tidy, and welcoming environment for all homeowners.
- ** Social Support**: Assist homeowners with social activities, transport arrangements, and attending appointments, enhancing their overall well-being and social connections.

**What We’re Looking For**:

- ** Driving Licence**: This is a field-based role, so a valid UK driving licence is required, along with a willingness to travel between developments.
- ** Flexibility**: The ability to work on a rota basis, to include early mornings, lates and alternate weekends.

**Why Join Us?**
- ** Travel Expenses Covered**: Use your personal car for work with all travel expenses fully reimbursed and parking available on site.
- ** Uniform and mobile phone**provided.
- ** Professional Development**: We support your growth with training opportunities, including the chance to work towards a Diploma in Health and Social Care and to progress to a senior care assistant role if that is something you would be interested in.
- ** 28 days holiday** inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata if part time hours)
- ** Life insurance**:

- ** Company pension**:

- ** Opportunities** to stay in our guest suites across all our developments UK wide
- ** Discounts** on apartment purchases for employees and immediate family
- ** Management and leadership training**and support with professional qualifications
- 24/7 access to Employee Assist Programme (including counsellors and legal advisors) and access to inhouse Mental Health First Aiders
- ** Impactful Work**: Enjoy the satisfaction of making a meaningful difference in the lives of older adults every day.
- ** The opportunity to earn extra income**from our staff referral scheme (Up to £500 per referral)

If you’re a caring, dedicated individual with a can-do attitude and a passion for supporting independent living, we’d love to hear from you

As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.

We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list