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Care Assistant

Care By Us
Pay No pay info

Location Aylesbury, UK

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8.2

Rated 8.2 out of 10, based on 16 employees who took the Breakroom Quiz

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About Care By Us

Care By Us is a provider of dementia, domiciliary and specialist care for people across Hertfordshire and Essex

Job description from Care By Us

Job Description

What else you’ll help with:

  • Companionship – being a friendly face & preventing loneliness.
  • Personal Care – all aspects of personal hygiene
  • Medication – collecting prescriptions & providing reminders.
  • Mealtimes – preparing tasty meals.
  • Housekeeping – keeping their home just the way they like it
  • Mobility – help with getting around.

Job insights from Breakroom

Care workers and assistants

Care workers and assistants help support people in their daily lives to live as independently as possible

What you’ll do as a care worker/assistant:

  • Help with social or physical activities
  • Household tasks, like cleaning and washing
  • Support by preparing food, and providing help with eating and other tasks like bathing and getting dressed
  • Check and monitor health and help with medication

Is it right for you?

This job may involve:

  • Standing
  • Heavy lifting
  • Helping with personal care
  • Physical activity
  • Emotionally demanding duties
  • Wearing a uniform
  • Night work
  • Long hours
  • Anti-social hours
  • Cleaning
  • Working alone

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What Care By Us employees say about their job

  • Best thing

    Flexible shifts. No shortage of work.

    Worst thing

    Impossibly busy rotas. Too few carers.

    4.5

    Care By Us Senior carer, June 2021

  • Best thing

    Caring and helping people

    Worst thing

    Being on a timetable, with no time to travel from one su to the next. If you arrive 'late' you are in trouble, sometimes getting verbal abuse

    3.2

    Care By Us Senior support worker, March 2021

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  • Best thing

    Meeting new people

    Worst thing

    Changing my rota last minute

    9.0

    Care By Us Area Community Manager, January 2021

  • Best thing

    Make sense

    Worst thing

    Not enough time, too much uncovered people

    9.6

    Care By Us Carer, August 2020

  • Best thing

    Love helping others

    Worst thing

    Rota changes to often
    No continuity

    6.2

    Care By Us Carer, July 2020

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