Care Assistant – Be Caring, Manchester (Part-Time Hours Available)
Be Caring is looking for compassionate and reliable Care Assistants to join its dedicated team in Manchester. This is a fantastic opportunity to start or grow a rewarding career in social care with a values-driven, employee-owned organisation that puts people first.
Part-time hours are available, and all new starters receive paid induction training to ensure they feel confident and well-prepared. Successful candidates will demonstrate a strong understanding of dignity and respect, safeguarding, equality and diversity, as well as maintaining confidentiality and professional boundaries.
If you’re looking for meaningful work in a supportive environment where you’re valued and heard, Be Caring offers a place to thrive while making a positive difference in your community.
About Be Caring
Be Caring is the UK’s largest employee-owned provider of social care services in the home and operates as a not-for-profit social enterprise. This means every colleague is a co-owner of the business, sharing in its success and helping shape its future.
As a values-driven organisation, Be Caring prioritises people over profit, investing in its teams through training, support, and development. The organisation is committed to improving the well-being of communities, with a strong focus on quality, compassion, and empowerment.
Colleagues have a genuine voice in how the business is run through The VOICE, an elected forum representing team members from every service location. Be Caring promotes a culture of collaboration, shared responsibility, and meaningful impact in everything it does.
Position: Care Assistant
Job Type: Full-Time/Part Time
Location: Manchester
About the Role
Are you a Carer for a friend or family member?
Why not use your knowledge, skills, and experience to become a Care Assistant for others in your local community?
Join Be Caring Today!
Applicants must be based in South Manchester, UK.
You will be recruited to a dedicated care team operating in:
Baguley, Brooklands, Didsbury, Northenden, Peel Hall and Wythenshawe (M20, M21, M22 & M23)
For this role we are recruiting:
Drivers
Walkers
Shift pay rather than pay per call, which means you are paid from the start of your first call to the end of your last call within a shift.
As a Care Assistant for Be Caring, your working hours will be aligned to our shift patterns, which includes early starts, late evenings and weekend working:
* Early shift: 7:00am – 2:00pm
* Late shift: 3:00pm – 10:00pm
As a Care Assistant for Be Caring we will agree your working pattern, setting 2-week rota which includes:
* Alternate full weekends, or every Saturday or every Sunday
* Evenings as agreed within your working hours
* Fully funded DBS.
* Paid induction training: 1 week classroom-based (Monday – Friday), 2 days shadowing and additional online modules.
* Training development: funded Level 2 and other accredited courses.
* Holiday pay: annual leave accumulates with working hours and length of service.
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): 24-hour helpline, advice and guidance for yourself and dependents.
* Union membership (optional): through our partnership with the GMB.
Main Duties
If you have previous experience as a Carer for family or friends, you’ll make an excellent Care Assistant in South Manchester. As a Care Assistant for Be Caring, you will:
* Support people to meet their outcomes, involving families and professionals.
* Provide personal care that protects people’s dignity.
* Promote independence using enabling approaches.
* Deliver personalised care through individual choice and control.
* Be a strong and effective communicator, documenting, reporting, and sharing information with the right people at the right time.
* Connect people to their communities accessing local support and services.
Induction Training
We are looking for people with Be Caring values to join our team. You may have no direct experience, or you may have been a Carer for a friend or family member. Regardless, we will provide you with the training you need to be an outstanding Care Assistant. As a Care Assistant for Be Caring, you will be provided with comprehensive induction training on:
* Be Caring values, going Above & Beyond to meet personal outcomes.
* Dignity and respect, safeguarding and equality and diversity
* Confidentiality and professional boundaries.
* Fluids and nutrition and safe administration of medication.
* Moving and positioning, basic life support, and pressure sores (React to Red)
* Infection prevention and control, health and safety.
* Learning Disabilities (Oliver McGowan Tier 1), mental health and capacity.
Apply today and our friendly recruitment team will be in touch!
Required Documents
* CV/Resume
Application Process
To apply for this role, please visit HERE
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