What You’ll Be Doing
As a Care Professional, you’ll provide essential care and support in the homes of our clients, following personalised care plans that put dignity and respect at the heart of everything you do.
You’ll help with:
- Supporting with personal care – bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming
- Assisting with medication – preparation and administration
- Helping with mobility and using aids/equipment safely
- Preparing meals/snacks and offering mealtime support
- Carrying out light domestic duties – laundry, making beds, light cleaning
- Offering companionship and building meaningful relationships
What Else You’ll Help With
- Companionship – conversations, activities, outings
- Medication Management – collecting prescriptions, reminders, safe administration
- Nutrition & Mealtimes – cooking nutritious meals, considering dietary needs
- Housekeeping – light cleaning, laundry, tidying
- Mobility Assistance – transfers, walking support, use of aids
- Health Monitoring – observing and reporting changes in condition
- Social Inclusion – helping maintain community and family connections
- Emotional Support – empathy, reassurance, and a listening ear
- Documentation – accurate record keeping
- ️ Safety & Emergency Response – creating safe environments, acting quickly when needed
- Collaboration – working closely with colleagues, professionals, and families
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 heart of gold, reliability, and the drive to make a difference.
- Driving Requirement: Access to a vehicle is strictly required due to the geographical nature of this role (you must hold a valid driving licence).
- ✅ Genuine compassion and respect for others (kindness goes a long way!)
- ✅ Strong communication and listening skills (that would make a UN diplomat jealous)
- ✅ A positive, can-do attitude (as resilient as a rubber band and eager to learn)
- ✅ 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 Care Assistant hero!
Additional Information
What You’ll Receive
Here’s what makes being part of Sage Care truly special:
- Group Recognition Programmes: Be celebrated for your hard work with our internal 'Care Heroes' awards and long-service recognition!
- 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
- Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay
- Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement
- Pension scheme & Death in Service Payment
- Benefits and wellbeing platform
- Refer a friend scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Paid Shadowing Shifts 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!
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 health care assistants, we see extraordinary achievements happen every day. We are transforming the care industry by working smarter, using innovative tech and driving forward positive change. As the largest care company in the UK, we have care assistant vacancies across the country and we offer a world of career opportunity, choice and security.
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