Care Assistant

Job summary

Package Description: Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can really make a difference? Are you an experienced care professional looking for a change? You may be new to care or looking for a new challenge away from hospitality and retail. Come and join the Agincare family as a Care Assistant Where you'll be working Click here to view the care home: https://www.agincare.com/care-homes/derby/nightingale-care-nursing-home/?utm_source=Online&utm_medium=google&utm_campaign=nightingalegooglebusinessprofile&utm_term=gbp&utm_content=nightingale As an Agincare employee you'll enjoy: £12.76 per hour Refer a friend scheme up to £1000* Outstanding career development Fully funded training up to QCF level 5 Blue Light care discount package Company pension scheme On demand pay What is required from you? A minimum of 12 months on your right to work in the UK Opportunities Available: Care Assistant @ 36 hours per week working from 8am to 8pm to include working alternativ

Main duties of the job

Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can really make a difference? Are you an experienced care professional looking for a change? You may be new to care or looking for a new challenge away from hospitality and retail. Come and join the Agincare family as a Care Assistant. As an Agincare employee, you'll enjoy a competitive hourly rate of £12.76, a refer a friend scheme that can earn you up to £1000, outstanding career development opportunities, fully funded training up to QCF level 5, a Blue Light care discount package, a company pension scheme, and on-demand pay. We require that you have a minimum of 12 months validity on your right to work in the UK. Opportunities available include Care Assistant and Night Care Assistant positions, both offering 36 hours per week on a rota basis, including alternative weekends.

About us

Agincare is proudly celebrating 40 years of caring for communities. As a rapidly growing, family-owned care provider with more than 5,500 team members, and expanding every day, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of our new not-for-profit Childrens Services. Today, Agincare is one of the UKs largest care providers, delivering care and nursing homes, home care, extra care, supported living, and live-in care across more than 170 locations nationwide. As a signatory of the Care Leaver Covenant, we are committed to supporting care leavers by guaranteeing either an interview or an informal career conversation. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community through our alliance, offering guaranteed interviews to service leavers and members of the military community.

Details

• Date posted: 02 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £12.76 an hour
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 1522414899
• Job locations: Agincare Homes Holdings, Derby, DE23 1RJ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can really make a difference? Are you an experienced care professional looking for a change?

You may be new to care or looking for a newchallenge away from hospitality and retail.

Come and join the Agincare family as a Care Assistant

Where you'll be working

Click here to view the care home:https://www.agincare.com/care-homes/derby/nightingale-care-nursing-home/?utm_source=Online&utm_medium=google&utm_campaign=nightingalegooglebusinessprofile&utm_term=gbp&utm_content=nightingale

As an Agincare employee you'll enjoy:

• £12.76 per hour
• Refer a friend scheme up to£1000*
• Outstanding career development
• Fully funded training up to QCF level 5
• Blue Light care discount package
• Company pension scheme
• On demand pay

What is required from you?

• A minimum of 12 months on your right to work in the UK
• Opportunities Available:
• Care Assistant @ 36 hours per week working from 8am to 8pm to include working alternative weekends
• Night Care Assistant @ 36 hours per week working from 8pm to 8am to include working alternative weekends

A day in the life of a Care Assistant

• Companionship - Providingsupport, companionship, communication and engagement
• Personal care-supporting with a wash bath or shower andsupporting the client with dressing and oral care.
• Medication-Prompting, assisting or administering medications and creams.
• Meals Supporting the client with healthy meals, snacks and beverages.
• Domestic tasks- light cleaning tasks.
• Mobility -Supporting the client to live asindependently as possible with their mobility.
• Social activities- Trips out, social engagements and activities within the home.

About Agincare

Agincare is proudly celebrating 40years of caring for communities. As a rapidlygrowing, family-ownedcare provider with more than5,500 team members, and expanding every day, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of ournew not-for-profit Childrens Services. Today,Agincare is one of the UKs largest care providers, delivering care and nursing homes, home care, extra care, supported living, and live-in care across more than 170 locationsnationwide.

As a signatory of theCare Leaver Covenant, we are committed tosupporting care leavers by guaranteeing either an interview or an informal career conversation. We are proud to support the Armed Forcescommunity through our alliance,offering guaranteed interviewsto service leavers and members of the military community.

All of our services areregulated by the CQCand Agincare is proud to be anequal opportunities employerand encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.At present, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

As care is always in high demand, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities available. If this particular role isnt the right fit for you, we encourage you to explore our other vacancies,www.agincare.com/careers

*Refer a friend bonuses are subject to terms and conditions

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