• Title Care Assistant
  • Setting Clients Home
  • Role Carer / Support Worker
  • Salary £14.20 to £14.40 per hour Mileage Allowance
  • Hours Full Time or Part Time
  • Location Great Dunmow, Essex

Job Summary

Date posted: 7 April 2025
  • Job Reference: Care Assistant

Make a Real Difference this Spring — Join Our Caring Team!

So, you've never done Care Work before but now you are considering it?

Watch the video on the below link to find out how great a career it is!

A day as a CareGiver at Right at Home Bishop's Stortford & Braintree

https://youtu.be/n2P3ecAOyP8

Are You New to Home Care?

As a brand new Caregiver, going into someone’s home to deliver care and support can seem a daunting prospect. To ensure you are fully prepared all staff undertake a thorough face-face training program at our office followed by shadow training and then regular refresher training.

Your initial home visits will always be carried out alongside an experienced colleague whilst you ‘find your feet’. You will also have management support on every home visit you then make. Never will you be ‘thrown in at the deep end’

Right at Home Bishop's Stortford and Braintree is a friendly, professional, local home-care provider who recognises that its employees are its greatest asset. Our company really is built around the amazing work that all of our Care Assistants do every day. We are looking for Care Assistants who are flexible and reliable to help us continue providing the highest standard of care for our clients in the local area. Whether you've got experience in care or it's a completely new career, we would love to hear from you!

What we offer our Care Assistants:

  • Competitive hourly rates £14.20ph Weekdays and £14.40ph Weekend and Enhancement on Bank Holidays
  • Mileage pay at 40p per mile
  • Paid Holiday
  • Free DBS
  • Award-winning training and ongoing support
  • Access to further learning
  • Clear career progression routes
  • Flexible hours
  • Blue light card

Duties will include:

  • Motivating Clients to get the most out of their day
  • Personal care
  • Administering medication
  • Assisting Clients with washing and dressing
  • Shopping
  • Housekeeping
  • Meal preparation
  • Taking Clients for appointments or outings

Requirements of a Care Assistant:

  • Must hold a full and valid UK or EU/EEA driving licence and have access to own vehicle
  • Be able to offer availability either early mornings (from 7am), afternoon (from 2pm) or evening (from 4pm) and every other weekend
  • Commit to attending a 3-day training course
  • Live locally to Bishop's Stortford, Takeley, Dunmow, Braintree and surrounding areas
  • Have or be willing to obtain business vehicle insurance

If you have experience as a Care Assistant, Support Worker, Carer, HCA, Health Care Assistant or in the NHS we would love to hear from you. However, if you do not have experience, we provide full training and encourage candidates from all sectors to apply, for example: retail sales assistant, customer service, hairdressers/beauticians, receptionist, administrator, cleaners, warehouse workers and delivery drivers. This could be the start of your new career, with our full support and outstanding training, anything is possible if you put your head and heart into it.

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Right at Home is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of personal or protected characteristics.