Overview
Mobile Care Assistant role at McCarthy Stone. Location: Cheshire (covering Alsager, Congleton, Nantwich). 35 hours per week. Hourly rate: £12.80 per hour with travel expenses covered and up to an additional £1.30 for working evening and weekend hours. A valid UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle are essential at the point of application to be considered.
Join a field-based care and lifestyle delivery team, traveling between developments to deliver person-centred care and lifestyle services to homeowners in McCarthy Stone’s purpose-built developments.
Key Responsibilities
* Support Individual Homeowners: provide personalised care including help with daily activities, personal hygiene, and medication assistance. Provide domestic support such as cleaning, shopping, and managing household tasks.
* Housekeeping: maintain communal areas within developments to a high standard, ensuring a clean, tidy, and welcoming environment for all homeowners.
* Social Support: assist homeowners with social activities, transport arrangements, and attending appointments to enhance wellbeing and social connections.
What We’re Looking For
* Skills & Experience: strong interpersonal skills, empathy, and effective time management. Ideally, prior care experience with a Level 2 Health and Social Care qualification. Applications from those without care experience are welcome as full training and growth opportunities are provided.
* Driving Licence: valid UK driving licence and willingness to travel between developments in a field-based role.
* Flexibility: ability to work on a rota including early mornings, late shifts, and alternate weekends.
Why Join Us
* Travel Expenses Covered: use your personal car for work with travel expenses reimbursed and on-site parking available.
* Uniform and mobile phone provided.
* Professional Development: opportunities to train toward a Diploma in Health and Social Care and potential progression to a senior care assistant role.
* 28 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata for part-time).
* Life insurance and Company pension.
* Opportunities to stay in guest suites across developments UK wide.
* Staff discounts on apartment purchases for employees and immediate family.
* Management and leadership training with professional qualifications.
* 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (counsellors and legal advisors) and access to Mental Health First Aiders.
* Opportunities to earn extra income through referrals (up to £500 per referral).
About Us
McCarthy Stone is the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, providing high-quality homes across the UK. As of January 2025, McCarthy Stone operates over 545 developments for more than 24,200 people. We are committed to championing the role, wellbeing, and happiness of older people and launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation in late 2020 to support local causes.
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