Paid

Senior Care & Support Assistant

Posted Wednesday 1st October 2025

Apply by Sunday 30th November 2025

Hours: 37.5
Salary: £26,592.85 per annum
  • St Helena Care & Support are looking for Senior Care & Support Assistants.
  • You will work 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Sunday on a rota basis.
  • Main Duties include:
    • To provide regulated personalised care and support to people in their own homes to enable
      independence and enhance their wellbeing.
    • To provide a rapid response community care service enabling people to be safely discharged from
      hospital or to prevent an admission into hospital.

Location

Colchester

What we’re looking for

  • You must be kind, caring and responsive to the needs of the people we support, provide high quality care and support that is safe and effective.
  • Be a supportive leader of a team of care and support assistants, providing one to one supervision, training and guidance.
  • Be a good listener and carry out customer assessments in peoples own homes.
  • Must be willing to make a difference
  • A care certificate / NVQ Level 2
  • NVQ Level 3 (or willing to undertake)
  • Full clean UK Driving licence, have use of a vehicle and hold business use insurance

Additional information

St Helena Care & Support specialises in personalised, private home care for older people in their own homes. We are a national leader in home care innovation and a fast-growing, multi-award winning business.

Our mission is to make ageing a more enjoyable and rewarding experience for all involved and our care professionals have a huge role to play in making it happen.

Care is amazing. Great quality care can transform a moment, a day, even a relationship. That's why we believe care should be about making people feel understood, valued and supported. It's about enabling people to live their best life for as long as possible.

Apply by Sunday 30th November 2025