Company Description
🌟 Support Independence. Build Confidence. Make a Real Impact. 🌟
Now Recruiting: Reablement Care Assistants – Dacorum & East Herts
We’re looking for compassionate, reliable people to join our Welham Green Reablement team as Care Assistants.
🤔 What exactly is Reablement? Unlike traditional care where you might do things for a client, reablement is all about doing things with them. It is a specialized, short-term, intensive service (typically lasting up to 6 weeks) designed to help individuals recover and relearn daily skills—usually after a hospital stay, a fall, or a period of illness.
Instead of simply making their cup of tea, you will encourage and physically support them to make it themselves, gradually stepping back as their strength and confidence grow. It is highly goal-oriented. You will track their progress, celebrate their daily milestones, and ultimately cheer them on as they regain the ability to live safely and independently without the need for long-term care!
If you want to see the direct, life-changing results of your support, this role is for you.
📍 Work Locations (Immediate Starts) As part of our Welham Green Reablement team, you will be supporting clients across the following areas:
1. Dacorum District: Hemel Hempstead, Tring, Berkhamsted, and surrounding villages.
2. Hertford & Ware: SG12, SG13, SG14
3. Sawbridgeworth & Surrounds: CM21, CM22
💷 Pay Rates – Per Shift We believe great work deserves great pay:
4. £14.20 per hour – Monday to Friday
5. £16.00 per hour – Saturday & Sunday
✨ Guaranteed hours available for the right candidates – giving you the security of regular work!
⏰ Shifts – 7 Days a Week
6. Day: 06:00/07:00 – 14:00
7. Evening: 14:00 – 22:00/23:00
🚗 Requirements
8. Full UK driving licence
9. Access to a vehicle (essential for travel between clients)
Job Description
💙 What You’ll Be Doing
As a Reablement Care Assistant, your daily visits will focus on empowering your clients:
10. 🤝 Rebuilding Confidence – patiently encouraging clients to try tasks themselves.
11. 🚶 Mobility & Physiotherapy Support – assisting with transfers, walking, and exercises prescribed by occupational therapists.
12. 🍲 Nutrition & Mealtimes – supporting them to safely prepare their own meals and drinks.
13. 💊 Medication Management – prompting and guiding them to manage their own medication safely.
14. 🏡 Housekeeping Skills – helping them relearn how to manage light cleaning and laundry.
15. 👀 Health Monitoring – closely observing progress and reporting improvements or setbacks.
16. 🌍 Social Inclusion – helping them regain the confidence to step back into their community.
17. 📝 Documentation – logging specific milestones to track their journey to independence.
Qualifications
🦸 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:
18. 💙 Have compassion oozing from every pore
19. 🗣️ Can communicate like a UN diplomat
20. 🧩 Possess problem-solving powers that would impress Mother Teresa
21. 👵 Are committed to respectful, high-quality care that would make your gran proud
22. ✅ 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).