Overview
Contract Details: Permanent Full time contract, 36 hours per week, Days, Weekday and alternate weekend shifts
Salary: £12.50 per hour
Job Reference: Ref/62/1196
Contract Type: Days
Location: Writtle Road, Chelmsford
Closing Date: 11/02/2026
Home: Cherry Wood Grange
Benefits
* £12.50 per hour
* Full time – 36 hours per week (Days)
* Weekday and alternate weekend shifts
* Paid holiday
* Pension
* Staff recognition schemes
* Refer a Friend bonus of up to £1000
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Comprehensive Training and Career Development
* A friendly and supportive working environment
* Dedicated mental health champions
Role
About The Role: As our Care Assistant (Days), you’ll provide personal care to our residents, supporting them with bathing, eating, visiting the bathroom, and getting around and enjoying our lovely home. Your warm, supportive, and caring nature will help you build meaningful relationships with our residents and you will get to know everything about their likes and dislikes as well as their needs. Here’s some other important things you need to know:
* You’ll follow electronic care plans for each resident and administer medication as prescribed, accurately maintaining appropriate records for both.
* You must be alert at all times to our residents’ physical and mental well being
* You will help maintain our high standards ensuring our residents’ home is always clean and safe
The Ideal Candidate
Exceptional people make an exceptional care home
We’re looking for people who have a caring nature and want to work as part of an amazing team, surrounded by kindness and fun! For most of the roles in our vibrant care home, you don’t need specific qualifications or experience to be successful as full training is provided.
What we do look for are individuals who share our sense of compassion, care about people’s comfort and happiness and want to make a positive difference to the lives of our treasured residents and team members.
About Us And Our Home
Caring for Our Mental Health – Together At Cherry Wood Grange Care Home, we believe a happy, supported team delivers the best care. That’s why we’ve signed the Mental Health at Work Commitment – developed by experts with six essential standards that help us to create a home where everyone feels safe, valued, and able to thrive.
From trained Mental Health Champions to our online Wellbeing & Mindfulness Space, we make sure our people have the tools, time, and support they need – because your wellbeing matters here and when we take care of our minds, we can take care of each other and our residents even better
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