
Reablement Care Assistants
Job Description
💙 What You’ll Be Doing
As a Reablement Care Assistant, your daily visits will focus on empowering your clients:
- 🤝 Rebuilding Confidence – patiently encouraging clients to try tasks themselves.
- 🚶 Mobility & Physiotherapy Support – assisting with transfers, walking, and exercises prescribed by occupational therapists.
- 🍲 Nutrition & Mealtimes – supporting them to safely prepare their own meals and drinks.
- 💊 Medication Management – prompting and guiding them to manage their own medication safely.
- 🏡 Housekeeping Skills – helping them relearn how to manage light cleaning and laundry.
- 👀 Health Monitoring – closely observing progress and reporting improvements or setbacks.
- 🌍 Social Inclusion – helping them regain the confidence to step back into their community.
- 📝 Documentation – logging specific milestones to track their journey to independence.
🦸 What You’ll Need (Besides a Cape and Superpowers!)
Hold onto your hats — ideally, you’ll have at least 6 months of social care experience to join our merry band of care crusaders!
But here’s the truth: what matters most to us is your heart of gold and your ability to sprinkle kindness wherever you go. You’ll need to be as resilient as a rubber band and as eager to learn as a curious kitten. Don’t worry — we’ll help you level up your skills and knowledge as part of our close-knit (and delightfully quirky) team.
While experience is a bonus, we’re really looking for people who:
- 💙 Have compassion oozing from every pore
- 🗣️ Can communicate like a UN diplomat
- 🧩 Possess problem-solving powers that would impress Mother Teresa
- 👵 Are committed to respectful, high-quality care that would make your gran proud
- ✅ Have the right to work within the UK (Please note: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship).
🚗 A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential (some clients live in rural areas and need heroes who can reach them).
🎁 What You’ll Receive
- ✨ Guaranteed hours available for the right candidates
- 👶 Enhanced maternity, adoption & paternity pay
- 💰 Pension scheme
- 🛡️ Death in Service benefit
- 🌼 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
- 🚲 Cycle to Work scheme
- ⛽ Paid mileage
- 🎉 Enhanced weekend & bank holiday pay
- 🎓 Paid training (online & face-to-face)
- 🚀 Career progression opportunities
- 💆 Employee benefits & wellbeing platform
- 🛍️ Blue Light Card eligibility (staff discounts)
- 🤝 Refer-a-Friend bonus (£300 per referral)
- ⏱️ Flexible hours – part-time and full-time available
- 🏢 Local work with the backing of the largest care company in the UK
🚀 Ready to Help People Live Life Their Way? If you’re ready to start a rewarding career supporting people to regain independence and confidence, join our reablement team of everyday heroes. Apply today!
Care By Us is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.