8 Health Care Assistant jobs in Plymouth

Location: Specialist SEN School, Plymouth
Salary: Grade C, £24,790 FTE, Actual Salary £16,494
Hours: Full-time, Term-time only
Start Date: September 2025

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of children and young people with complex needs?

We are recruiting dedicated Education, Health & Care Assistants (EHCAs) for a well-established specialist setting in Plymouth. This is a dyn.

ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Care Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help residents enjoy each day by making sure they get the quality care and support they deserve. You'll assist with daily living, providing support and companionship and sharing great moments and memories too. It's a chance to bring your dedication and compassion to a fulfilling environment. Every day will be different, so you can expect to undertake work that's as varied as it is rewarding. As a Care Assistant, you could be doing anything from supporting residents with their food and drink and following care plans to ensuring that each of our residents has one-to-one time. It's an opportunity to put your skills to meaningful use and develop your career.

ABOUT YOU
To join us as a Care Assistant you'll need to have some experience of caring for older people, a can-do approach and excellent communication skills. Your empathy and warm-hearted approach will shine through, but above all, you'll have the compassion needed to deliver the highest standard of care and support for all our residents. In return we'll provide all the training you need to thrive.

REWARDS PACKAGE

In return for your dedication, you'll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including:

Free training and development for all roles
Access to wellbeing and support tools
A range of retail discounts and savings
Unlimited referrals with our Refer a Friend' bonus scheme
Employee of the Month' rewards and Long Service Awards'

And so much more!

If you'd like to use your people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

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Vacancy:    Senior Care Assistant Days – AV1743

Hours:    Full Time

Location:    Bridgend

Pay rate:    £13.60 Per Hour    

A Senior Care Assistant is required at our Client’s fantastic purpose built Residential Care facility situated in Bridgend. The home offers the flexibility of respite care for short breaks and permanent care for those who can no longer live at home. There is a separate purpose-built unit specialising in the care of residents who have dementia type illnesses in addition to support those residents with residential needs for up to 30 service users within a beautiful independent small residential care home setting.

Benefits include.

• Ongoing training and development; including fully funded diplomas up to NVQ level 5.
• Variety – no two days are the same!
• Long term career opportunities
• Annual Leave 28 days
• FlexEarn - providing you with the opportunity to withdraw a portion of your wages in advance of payday, to increase your choice and financial wellbeing.
• No DBS fees.
• Employee assistance program to support your health and wellbeing.
• Blue Light Card offering a number of discounts across retail and hospitality.
• Being part of an award-winning organisation

Our Client’s ethos is to be family orientated, professional, hard-working, client-led and fun. A happy atmosphere is promoted by the Management, as this adds to the home's environment. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a Care Provider who really cares.

Previous experience as a Care Assistant within a care home and an NVQ2/3 in Health & Social Care is desirable. Also, medication training would be extremely advantageous.

If you are interested in joining this friendly team, please apply below.

Vacancy:    Team Leader/Senior Care Assistant – AV1741A

Hours:    Full Time

Location:    Tavistock

Pay rate:    £14.00 Per Hour    

A Senior Care Assistant is required at our Client’s fantastic purpose built Residential Care facility situated in Tavistock. The home offers the flexibility of respite care for short breaks and permanent care for those who can no longer live at home. There is a separate purpose-built unit specialising in the care of residents who have dementia type illnesses in addition to support those residents with residential needs for up to 30 service users within a beautiful independent small residential care home setting.

Benefits include.

• Ongoing training and development; including fully funded diplomas up to NVQ level 5.
• Variety – no two days are the same!
• Long term career opportunities
• Annual Leave 28 days
• FlexEarn - providing you with the opportunity to withdraw a portion of your wages in advance of payday, to increase your choice and financial wellbeing.
• No DBS fees.
• Employee assistance program to support your health and wellbeing.
• Blue Light Card offering a number of discounts across retail and hospitality.
• Being part of an award-winning organisation

Our Client’s ethos is to be family orientated, professional, hard-working, client-led and fun. A happy atmosphere is promoted by the Management, as this adds to the home's environment. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a Care Provider who really cares.

Previous experience as a Care Assistant within a care home and an NVQ2/3 in Health & Social Care is desirable. Also, medication training would be extremely advantageous.

If you are interested in joining this friendly team, please apply below.

ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Bank Care Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help residents enjoy each day by making sure they get the quality care and support they deserve. You'll assist with daily living, providing support and companionship and sharing great moments and memories too. It's a chance to bring your dedication and compassion to a fulfilling environment. Every day will be different, so you can expect to undertake work that's as varied as it is rewarding. As a Bank Care Assistant, you could be doing anything from supporting residents with their food and drink and following care plans to ensuring that each of our residents has one-to-one time. It's an opportunity to put your skills to meaningful use and develop your career.

ABOUT YOU
To join us as a Bank Care Assistant you'll need to have some experience of caring for older people, a can-do approach and excellent communication skills. Your empathy and warm-hearted approach will shine through, but above all, you'll have the compassion needed to deliver the highest standard of care and support for all our residents. In return we'll provide all the training you need to thrive.

REWARDS PACKAGE
As well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take the growth of everyone who works for us seriously.

As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary.

If you'd like to use your people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

• Responsible for the planning and delivery of teaching, learning and assessment that engages and challenges learners to develop new skills and knowledge
• Act as subject matter expert, advising and guiding learners through their qualification and beyond through the application and sharing of knowledge, understanding and experience.
• Accountable for the learner achievement, continuously reviewing and tracking learner progress and developing action plans to ensure consistent and positive success rates and timely completion across your caseload.
• Build trusted relationships with learners from the initial point of contact and maintain this relationship and contact throughout learning. Acting with the learner at the heart of decision making, support learners with
  CIAG, welfare and pastoral care.

• Strong Occupational Competency or qualifications within Adult Health & Social Care (Essential)
• Full UK driving license (Essential)
• PTLLS/A1 Assessor/Equivalent qualified or a willingness to undertake this qualification if successful 

Overview: Trainee Health and Social Care Assessor

Do you have management experience in Health and Social Care and are looking for a career change? Have a passion to motivate young people? We might just have the opportunity for you! We are looking for an experienced Health and Social Care professional (Deputy Manager, Registered Manager, Care Manager) who is passionate about training and would like .