# Care Support Assistant

**Company**: Your Life Your Way
**Location**: London
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £17 an hour
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/L0091-26-0114?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

At Your Life Your Way, we empower people to live independently, whether at home or in supported accommodation. Since 2010, our trusted team has delivered compassionate, high-quality support tailored to each individual's needs.

Are you caring, compassionate, and looking to make a real difference in someone's life? Then come and join us in a rewarding career as a Care Support Assistant.

This position involves variable part-time hours per week which are day shifts and hours change dependent upon term time and non-term time.

**Term time (18 hours per week)** Tuesday - 16:00-22:00 Wednesday - 16:00-22:00 Thursday - 16:00-22:00

**Non-term time (36 hours per week)** Tuesday - 8:00-20:00 Wednesday - 08:00- 20:00 Thursday - 08:00- 20:00

We do require flexibility to cover weekends for annual leave and sickness cover.

**Main duties of the job**

- Assisting our client to meet their personal care and toileting needs

- Assisting our client with their daily routines, encouraging independence wherever possible

- Providing companionship and emotional support

- Helping with household tasks and meal preparation

- Supporting our client to attend appointments and community activities

- Administering medication when required

**What We're Looking For**

- A caring and empathetic nature

- Good communication skills

- A genuine desire to support others

- Basic IT and record-keeping skills

- A full UK driving licence is advantageous

- Experience in working with people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour would be an advantage – full training provided

**What We Offer**

- Paid annual holiday leave

- Pension scheme entitlement

- Full induction and ongoing training

- Confidential employee assistance helpline

- Opportunities to gain qualifications in Health and Social Care

- Career progression pathways

- Blue Light membership with discounts from 15,000+ brands

- We pay for your DBS certificate and reimburse you for the Update Service

- Refer-a-friend bonus scheme

- Online employee portal for easy access to information

- Employee feedback surveys and staff recognition

## Skills

### Required
- caring
- empathetic
- communication skills
- basic IT
- record-keeping

### Nice to have
- experience with learning disabilities
- challenging behaviour
- UK driving licence

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Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/L0091-26-0114?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)