Care Assistant 7am - 2pm or/and 6pm -10pm

Care Assistant - Havant, Waterlooville and surrounding areas.

Please note: It is essential that you have a full UK driving licence and access to a car.

At UKG Care we're looking for Care Assistants who would not only like a career in Health and Social Care, but who can also put the true meaning of caring into the way we deliver our care services and help us make a difference to people’s lives.

UKG Care is a family-run company local to Hampshire, providing support to our clients in their own homes and helping them to maintain their independence. We are proud to be leading the way in our approach - providing high-quality care with ‘the human touch’. We are now expanding and looking to increase our team of exceptional, fun, positive, Professional Care Assistants.

Even if you haven't worked within care or as a Care Assistant previously but have a caring nature and like to put people first, then you're the type of person we're looking for - and this is the perfect job for you!

We provide blended training through online and in-house training. This will include shadowing trained Care Assistant colleagues, to get first-hand experience before you start and to make sure you're fully comfortable and confident in performing your role. We'll also help to further your ambitions, whether you want guidance to excel in your Care Assistant role or to progress and develop your skills to become a Team Leader, Registered Manager or branch out into a nursing career.

If you want to experience a real sense of achievement and purpose every day and if you love helping others and want to be part of a successful and growing business where high-quality care is delivered by the most caring people, then we'd love to hear from you.

Care Assistant Job description

Some of your main responsibilities as a Care Assistant will be:

• Helping clients with their individual needs and maintaining independence
• Companionship
• Personal care – help with bathing/showering, dressing, assisting to the toilet
• Prompting to take medication
• Accompanying to appointments
• Light housekeeping duties and meal preparation
• Keeping up to date care notes after every visit to a client’s home

Care Assistant Benefits:

• PAID INDUCTION
• SET SHIFT PATTERNS
• Part-time and full-time hours available
• 30 mins minimum call time
• Holiday pay
• Bank holiday pay – DOUBLE TIME
• Pension
• 1 x uniform provided
• All PPE provided
• External counselling service
• Working in set areas only
• Paid yearly MOT certificate *
• Staff Christmas party
• £50 referral bonus *

*Conditions apply, please ask for more details.

Our Care Assistant training:

When starting as a Care Assistant, we will provide:

• Paid training – 1 day of in-house classroom training and 1 week of shadowing a trained Care Assistant, attending care calls on the run you take on
• Care Certificate training
• 1-to-1 support, i.e. reviews, competency checks, supervisions and observations
• Small classroom groups

Career opportunities:

Plenty of opportunities for career progression.

Our Care Assistant shift patterns:

We offer a range of variable hour contracts; part-time and full-time hours are available on the stated shift patterns. We offer Morning, Evening and All Day shifts.

• 7am – 2pm
• 4pm – 10pm
• 6pm – 10pm