Salary: £12.71 per hour
Location: Swiss Cottage, Camden
Hours: Casual Hours
Position Type: {Advertised Full Time / Part Time}
Expiry Date: 25/01/2026 23:59
The Vacancy
Join our dedicated Care Team at Compton Lodge Care Home, where compassion and community are at the heart of everything we do. As a Casual Care Assistant, you’ll be part of an incredible team that works tirelessly to keep our residents engaged, active, and enjoying life.
Whether you're supporting residents with their personal care and hygiene needs or helping maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the home, your contribution will make a meaningful difference.
This opportunity is available for those seeking more flexibility. Standard shifts are 12 hours and 20 minutes, and this vacancy is offered as casual contracted hours in line with this shift pattern.
We’re happy to accommodate alternative shift lengths, especially during peak times
About us
C&C is a forward-thinking and innovative charitable provider of housing, care, and bespoke services exclusively for older people in London. We have 90 years’ experience of retirement home design and living in London. We are very proud of the ‘family’ feel of our Care Homes.
We appreciate it’s been a challenging time for everyone. So, if you are seeking a new job or a casual role where you can get paid while making a massive difference to the lives of our residents, then apply now.
You will work alongside an amazing team that care passionately about our residents. We work hard to keep our residents engaged, active and enjoying their lives. Whether you would like to support our residents directly with their physical care and personal hygiene needs or instead help us in maintaining high levels of cleanliness across our homes, you can make a real contribution.
About you
You will need:
- Good communication skills
- Basic literacy and numeracy skills
- To be compassionate and patient
- Ideally some experience in a caring industry, for example hospitality or schools
- To pass our DBS check or be on the DBS update service
Even better if you have previous experience of a care environment, providing personal care or knowledge of dementia.
We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
- A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
- We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
- Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
- Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
- Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
- We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives.
Please note, we are actively shortlisting candidates throughout the duration of the advert, interviews will be held as soon as possible and we will make an offer immediately if we find the right candidate. Apply without delay!
All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.
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The Company
The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.
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