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Care Assistant - Bank - Care Home


Location
Salary
£14.61 an hour
Profession
Healthcare support worker
Deadline
24 Aug 2026
Contract Type
Bank
Posted Date
25 Jun 2026
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Job summary

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a casual, part-time role offering flexible working. As a Bank Care Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help residents enjoy each day by making sure they get the quality care and support they deserve. You'll assist with daily living, providing support and companionship and sharing great moments and memories too. It's a chance to bring your dedication and compassion to a fulfilling environment. Every day will be different, so you can expect to undertake work that's as varied as it is rewarding. As a Bank Care Assistant, you could be doing anything from supporting residents with their food and drink and following care plans to ensuring that each of our residents has one-to-one time. It's an opportunity to put your skills to meaningful use and develop your career. ABOUT YOU To join us as a Bank Care Assistant you'll need to have some experience of caring for older people, a can-do approach and excellent communication skills. Your empathy and warm-hearted approach

Main duties of the job

This temporary position for a Bank Care Assistant at Barchester Healthcare requires providing high-quality care and support to residents of a care home to help them enjoy each day. The role involves assisting with daily living activities, sharing great moments, and ensuring each resident has personalized care and companionship. It promises a varied and rewarding daily work experience where every day is different. Candidates must have experience caring for older people, a can-do approach, great communication skills, and high compassion standards. The role also promises competitive pay and limitless learning and development opportunities, with true flexibility to work on varying hours and days depending on the need for cover. The position does involve working on a casual and part-time basis, ensuring the care home has sufficient staff during periods such as annual leave or sick leave.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, offering care homes and healthcare services with a high commitment to providing exceptional care for each individual, ensuring that residents receive the highest standard of care they deserve. Barchester emphasizes a personal approach to care by bringing dedication and compassion to a fulfilling environment suited for helping individuals enjoy their lives to the fullest. Barchester takes employee growth seriously, offering plenty of learning and development opportunities, and fostering an inclusive and flexible working environment. As a company, Barchester creates career paths that enable employees to develop their skills in a supportive, caring, and welcoming community that believes strongly in delivering quality care to all those it serves.

Details

  • Date posted: 25 June 2026
  • Pay scheme: Other
  • Salary: £14.61 an hour
  • Contract: Bank
  • Working pattern: Flexible working
  • Reference number: 1521262577
  • Job locations: Barchester Healthcare, Sevenoaks, TN13 1XH, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEThis is a casual, part-time role offering flexible working. As a Bank Care Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help residents enjoy each day by making sure they get the quality care and support they deserve. You'll assist with daily living, providing support and companionship and sharing great moments and memories too. It's a chance to bring your dedication and compassion to a fulfilling environment. Every day will be different, so you can expect to undertake work that's as varied as it is rewarding. As a Bank Care Assistant, you could be doing anything from supporting residents with their food and drink and following care plans to ensuring that each of our residents has one-to-one time. It's an opportunity to put your skills to meaningful use and develop your career.

ABOUT YOUTo join us as a Bank Care Assistant you'll need to have some experience of caring for older people, a can-do approach and excellent communication skills. Your empathy and warm-hearted approach will shine through, but above all, you'll have the compassion needed to deliver the highest standard of care and support for all our residents. In return we'll provide all the training you need to thrive.

REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take the growth of everyone who works for us seriously.

As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary.

If you'd like to use your people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Some experience in caring for older people, excellent communication skills, a can-do approach, and the compassion needed to deliver high-standard care.

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This advert is for Care Assistant - Bank - Care Home with Barchester Healthcare in Bristol, South East, England. It is listed as a Healthcare support worker role. The advertised salary is £14.61 an hour. The contract type is Bank. The application deadline is 24 Aug 2026.

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