✨ Your key responsibilities include: 🍳 Empowering Independence (helping individuals develop essential life skills, from cooking and budgeting to household tasks) 🚶 Community Access (supporting individuals to get out and about to college, shopping, hobbies, and social activities) 💧 Personal care (providing dignified support with bathing, dressing, and grooming as required) 💊 Medication support (collecting prescriptions, providing reminders, and administration) 💬 Emotional support (being a consistent, encouraging presence to help build confidence and self-esteem)
✨ You’ll also: 🤝 Encourage social engagement and family connections 👀 Monitor wellbeing and report any changes to healthcare professionals and family 📝 Maintain accurate documentation of support provided 🛡️ Respond to emergencies safely and effectively 🧩 Work collaboratively with families and the wider care team
Qualifications 🦸 What You’ll Need (Besides a Cape!) Hold onto your hats, because you don't need any social care experience to join our merry band of care crusaders! 💪
We offer full, paid training — all you need is a positive attitude, reliability, and the drive to champion independence. 🚗 Driving Requirement: Access to a vehicle and a full driving licence is strictly required due to the community-based nature of this role covering SS13, SS14, and SS15. ✅ Genuine compassion and respect for others (kindness goes a long way!) ✅ A positive, energetic, and proactive attitude (as resilient as a rubber band and eager to learn) ✅ Strong communication and listening skills (that would make a UN diplomat jealous) ✅ Problem-solving abilities ✅ Reliability and a caring, supportive nature ✅ The right to work in the UK (sorry, time travellers from the future need not apply)
✨ If you’re kind-hearted, dependable, and ready to make every day a little brighter — you’ve already got what it takes to be a Support Worker hero!
Additional information 🎁 What You’ll Receive Here’s what makes being part of Guardian Homecare truly special: 🏆 Group Recognition Programmes: Be celebrated for your hard work with our internal awards and long-service recognition! 💳 Blue Light Card: Access to fantastic high street discounts 🌼 28 days annual leave (pro rata) 💰 Pension scheme 💆 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): For your wellbeing and peace of mind 🎉 Refer a friend scheme: Earn bonuses for bringing great people on board 🤝 Paid Shadowing Shifts: Work with an experienced mentor before you ever go out on your own! 🎓 Fully funded NVQs/Diplomas: In Health & Social Care – we will pay for you to upskill and progress your career!
🎁 What You’ll Receive
Here’s what makes being part of Sage Care truly special:
🌼 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
🎓 Paid online & face-to-face training
🌱 Career progression & self-development opportunities
🕓 Flexible working (full or part-time)
👶 Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption pay
💰 Pension scheme & Death in Service Payment
🛍️ Blue Light Card eligibility (exclusive discounts)
🚴 Cycle to Work scheme
🎉 £300 Refer-a-Friend bonus
💆 Access to well-being & benefits platform
🏢 Be part of the largest care company in the UK
🚀 Ready to Join Our Team of Everyday Heroes? If you're ready to embark on a care adventure that's more exciting than a rollercoaster ride through a chocolate factory, apply today and become part of our mission to transform care!
💙 We're an equal opportunities employer. Thanks to the commitment of our support workers, we see extraordinary achievements happen every day. We have vacancies across the region and we offer a world of career opportunity, choice and security.
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As a London Care Care Assistant, you’ll deliver award winning care to support our clients in their own homes to maintain their independence, dignity and self-worth.