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We are one of the UK’s leading care home providers, providing quality care for 40 years. Today we have over 150 homes across England, Wales and Scotland. If you're passionate about care and would like to join our team, use the search to find vacancies near you.

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These roles are either based at our head office in Colchester, are hybrid or fully remote. They are not typically based at our care homes.

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    • Registered Mental Nurse Bank

      • Competitive-Competitive
      • Days and Nights

      Are you a passionate and caring Registered Nurse looking for a rewarding career with excellent training and opportunities for development? Join Care UK, a multi award winning care provider as a Registered Mental Nurse.

      Join our bank team and embrace unparalleled flexibility by having the freedom to tailor your schedule to fit your lifestyle, whilst being a valued team member. Experience the true empowerment of a flexible and fulfilling career journey with Care UK.

      The Role

      • Providing outstanding leadership for care staff
      • Supporting residents with a range of complex needs and dependency levels
      • Provide clinical nursing to residents including medication management, infection prevention and control procedures, e.g. wound care, catheter management
      • Continuously strive towards ensuring clinical excellence within the home
      • Developing tailored care plans to delivering excellence across everything you do

      Some of our benefits you’ll receive by joining the Care UK family

      • Wagestream- access your wages at any-time   
      • Bank Holiday Pay Enhancements
      • Career development, training and access to our approved apprenticeship scheme
      • Hundreds of online and in-store discounts
      • Wellbeing support

      About You

      • An NMC Registered Nurse
      • Understands clinical assessment tools like Waterlow and MUST
      • Experienced in writing comprehensive care plans

      We are looking for people to make a difference to residents’ lives every day. When you join Care UK you’ll be joining a team who share the same values: caring, passionate and teamwork. You’ll have a strong desire to help people and put residents at the heart of everything you do.

      We are committed to recruiting diverse, talented people, who share our passion for helping others.  We see the potential in everyone, let us help fulfil yours.

      Find out more Apply now
    • Head Chef Bank

      • Competitive
      • Days

      Are you a chef with experience in a fast-paced kitchen environment with an emphasis on fresh and seasonal produce? Used to leading teams? Looking for a rewarding career with excellent training and opportunities for development? Then join Care UK, a multi award-winning care provider as a Head Chef.

      Join our bank team and embrace unparalleled flexibility by having the freedom to tailor your schedule to fit your lifestyle, whilst being a valued team member. Experience the true empowerment of a flexible and fulfilling career journey with Care UK.

      The Role

      • Leading the team in the smooth running of the kitchen operation
      • Develop nutritious and diet sensitive meals for residents and their requirements
      • Menu design and planning
      • Managing stock control and adhering to food cost guidelines
      • Ensure compliance with both Food Safety and Health and Safety in the kitchen
      • Training, supervising, and developing a team to help them make the most of their potential

      Some of our benefits by joining the Care UK family

      • Wagestream- access your wages at any-time   
      • Bank Holiday Pay Enhancements
      • Career development, training and access to our approved apprenticeship scheme
      • Hundreds of online and in-store discounts
      • Wellbeing support

      Career Development

      We have our own Catering Academy to provide excellent training and induction programs for all new Catering Staff and we will give you all that’s needed to have a successful career as a Chef with us. Our high quality, innovative training and coaching will support the development of your skills throughout your career with us.

      We are looking for people to make a difference to residents’ lives every day. When you join Care UK you’ll be joining a team who share the same values: caring, passionate and teamwork. You will have a strong desire to help people and put residents at the heart of everything you do.

      We are committed to recruiting diverse, talented people, who share our passion for helping others.  We see the potential in everyone, let us help fulfil yours.

      Find out more Apply now
    • Second Chef Bank

      • Competitive
      • Days

      If you’re an aspiring chef with experience gained in a high paced kitchen environment and are looking for a rewarding role offering great training, work life balance and the chance to be part of a catering team that are award winning, join Care UK as a Second Chef and make a real difference.

      Being a Second Chef at Care UK

      Second Chefs at Care UK are great at working with others. They enjoy sharing information and raising standards through culinary development, innovation and new ideas. They have access to a large supply chain for all catering requirements and the autonomy to create nutritious well balanced menus for everyone. They’re  self-motivated, flexible, enthusiastic and happy to take responsibility for resolving issues that arise. And, they know how to maintain team discipline and morale within the kitchen. Do you have the same sort of attributes? Then we could have just the role for you.

      What you’ll be doing

      Being a Second Chef isn’t just about helping the Head Chef ensure food is prepared to the agreed standard and that deadlines are met. It’s about taking control of running the kitchen in their absence. It's about using modern kitchen equipment and fresh local produce to develop full diet sensitive meals for residents so they can enjoy the same flavour and nutrition. And it's about helping to come up with menus, consulting with residents to ensure their needs and choices are met and preparing food in line with specific diets. Put simply, it’s about making a difference. A real difference.

      What you’ll need

      As well as a Catering Diploma (City & Guilds/BTEC) and NVQ 2/3 in practical cookery and Health and Safety. Food Hygiene Certificates (minimum level 2) are essential. You’ll also need good knowledge of nutritionally balanced menu planning and a proven ability to cater for specific dietary needs. And, if you’ve worked in a care home and/or have experience of stock control or working with a budget, even better (but not essential). Above all, you have a natural ability to help make the lives of others more fulfilling and want to work in an environment where the work can be hard, but also fun and rewarding.

      The benefits
       

      • Alternate weekend working and socilabe working hours
      • Competitive rates of pay – we continuously review pay in your local market
      • Opportunities to progress through our personalised career paths into Head Chef opportunities
      • Competitive refer a friend scheme of up to £1000 depending on role
      • Quality and free training to help develop and enhance your skills
      • Bank holiday enhancements
      • Cycle to work scheme
      • Free DBS
      • Thousands of online and in-store discounts across big known retailers enabling our colleagues to make big savings on every day shopping such as holidays, supermarkets and travel.
      • Employee Assistance Programme – Immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to include support such as financial and family concerns

      One of the UK’s leading care home providers, Care UK run over 120 homes and day clubs across the UK that provide residential, nursing, dementia and end-of-life care for older people. A top rated employer in best quality results, our goal is to help every employee fulfil their potential by providing first-class training and support.

      Fulfilling lives, fulfilling Careers.

      Find out more Apply now
    • Catering Assistant Bank

      • Competitive
      • Days

      Are you a passionate and caring individual looking for a rewarding career with excellent training and opportunities for development? Join Care UK, a multi award winning care provider as a Catering Assistant.

      Join our bank team and embrace unparalleled flexibility by having the freedom to tailor your schedule to fit your lifestyle, whilst being a valued team member. Experience the true empowerment of a flexible and fulfilling career journey with Care UK.

      The Role

      • Maintain the cleanliness of kitchen and related areas.
      • Preparation of produce for mealtime, for example vegetable preparation and making of sandwiches
      • Ensure correct storage of all dry and perishable produce.
      • Safely storing cleaning materials
      • Ensure all cooking utensils and pots are cleaned to the required standards
      • Carry out any tasks assigned by the Head / Second Chef or Home Manager

      Some of our benefits by joining the Care UK family

      • Wagestream- access your wages at any-time   
      • Bank Holiday Pay Enhancements
      • Career development, training and access to our approved apprenticeship scheme
      • Hundreds of online and in-store discounts
      • Wellbeing support

      New to Catering?
      We have our own Catering Academy to provide excellent training and induction programs for all new Catering Assistants and we will give you all that’s needed to have a successful career as a Catering Assistant with us. Our high quality, innovative training and coaching will support the development of your skills throughout your career with us.

      We are looking for people to make a difference to residents’ lives every day. When you join Care UK you’ll be joining a team who all share the same values: caring, passionate and teamwork. You will have a strong desire to help people and put residents at the heart of everything you do.

      We are committed to recruiting diverse, talented people, who share our passion for helping others.  We see the potential in everyone, let us help fulfil yours.

      Find out more Apply now