Care Assistant
From £12.71 per hour to £15.03 per hour
**At Colten Care we are proud to offer career development opportunities, and a range of pay enhancements across our roles. Contact us to find out more**
42 hrs per week, including alternate weekends (includes paid breaks)
Introduction
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual to join our team of Health Care Assistants. Whether experienced or new to care, our team at our luxury care home, Abbey View in Sherborne, Dorset. would like to hear from you.
Benefits:
Excellent rate of pay
Paid breaks
Complimentary meal of choice
Real career progression
If you have a positive, caring attitude, and a passion for making a difference, then starting a career with Colten Care is the place to start. You’ll thrive as a Health Care Assistant, with the guidance of our Nursing team available 24 hours a day.
Career progression is never far away, with plenty of opportunities to gain qualifications, thanks to our exceptional Learning and Development team.
Caring for our residents in our award-winning homes is a rewarding and fulfilling opportunity where you can make every day their best day.
About you
Compassion is in your nature. You’re willing to be hands-on with residents and help them whenever needed. You’re organised, hard-working, resilient, with good observation skills, attention to detail and a sense of fun.
You don’t need to have experience. Your personal qualities and values are more important to us, you’ll be supported with a comprehensive induction and ongoing training from day one.
About Colten Care
We’re an award-winning, family-owned, independent care home group, with an outstanding reputation in the industry. This is due to our amazing people and our focus on keeping the resident at the heart of everything we do.
We strive to be the best we can hence why all 21 of our nursing homes are rated at least good and 7 are outstanding by the CQC, our national regulator.
If a career in elderly care is for you then you want to be part of the team at Colten Care.
Additional Benefits
Pay enhancement for weekends, nights and NVQ qualifications
Additional hours/overtime opportunities available to suit your circumstances
Training provided from day one
Free uniforms
In-house progression opportunities to the Senior Care Lead Programme
Career progression to join the Trainee Nurse Associate Programme and be a nurse at no cost to you
We fund your learning and you increase your earnings.

Colten Care is an expanding family-owned business with 21 beautifully appointed care homes across Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and West Sussex.
Our established services are all rated as ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we provide residential, general nursing, dementia and short-stay care.
We are a prestigious, award-winning healthcare provider that champions the latest approaches to person-centred care. Each of our homes has a distinct character while retaining that all-important sense of ‘home.’ We play an active role in furthering dementia friendly communities as part of our work.
Our aims are simple: to be recognised as both the care home ‘provider of choice’ and ‘employer of choice.’