Apprentice Care Assistant
MARMORA LTD
CLACTON ON SEA (CO15 1JN)
Closes in 14 days (Monday 15 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 1 June 2026
Contents
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a young individual to join our friendly and innovative team at Marmora Care Home. As an apprentice, you will be fully supported in your role to assist residents with all parts of their daily living, nutrition, mobility and activities.
- Wage
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£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Adult care worker (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm with a 30 minute lunch break.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 19 June 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The following are the core responsibilities of the Apprentice. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:
- Assist residents in all aspects of their care needs (i.e. physical, spiritual, emotional, etc.). This will include carrying out resident's personal care, assisting during trips in the community and with continence care
- Ensure that the home is kept clean, safe and well maintained. This will include making residents beds, laundering clothes and cleaning and maintaining equipment in the home
- Assist residents with their nutritional and hydration preferences and requirements. This will include food and drink preparation, assisting and monitoring residents during meal times, washing up and carrying out regular tea trollies throughout the day
- Answer the call bell system and providing assistance as required and answer the telephone and doorbell accordingly, responding to any queries as required
- Complete all necessary documentation (i.e. food and fluid charts, daily records and behaviour charts)
Where you'll work
4-6 PENFOLD ROAD
CLACTON ON SEA
CO15 1JN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
Training course
Adult care worker (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply national standards, organisational policies and procedures, codes of conduct and ways of working that apply to own role.
- Follow national legislation, policies and guidance in adult social care settings, relating to health and safety within the scope of own role.
- Consider the human rights of individuals in adult social care settings, in line with organisational policies relating to equity, diversity and inclusion to support an open culture.
- Demonstrate a duty of candour, and duty of care acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
- Apply a person-centred, co-produced approach when developing relationships with individuals to support their health and wellbeing.
- Assist with conducting risk assessments, which focus on positive risk taking, to ensure the safety of yourself and others.
- Apply the principles of positive and proactive care and support for those with lived experience to proactively avoid or reduce escalation, de-escalate, and manage conflict.
- Customise information, advice and guidance to individuals with or without capacity or their representative to make informed, independent choices and decisions.
- Adapt approach to care and support for individuals with lived experience to meet their current and evolving cognitive and physical needs and conditions.
- Recognise and respect how an individuals capacity determines their ability to make informed decisions about their needs.
- Identify and respond to signs and symptoms of changes in the physical and mental capacity, mental health and wellbeing of those with lived experience, and monitor, record and report changes.
- Use appropriate communication methods that are adapted to respond to the needs of individuals, stakeholders and family members in adult social care settings, including verbal, written, non-verbal and digital communication.
- Develop personal resilience and access support to maintain wellbeing of self.
- Use record keeping systems to maintain clear and accurate records of interactions with individuals, and others ensuring security of information and data.
- Apply methods of digital working and communication and new care technologies to support improvements in own work setting.
- Record learning opportunities in line with organisational policies that support lifelong learning and meet the relevant standards.
- Record, use feedback and supervision to improve own practice to identify and support the development of individual goals and career opportunities.
- Contribute and agree to the personal development plan demonstrating support required for new learning goals and reflection on actual practice.
- Monitors safe and effective administration of medicines in accordance with national and organisational policies and the limitations of own role.
- Apply national standards, organisational policies and procedures, codes of conduct and ways of working that apply to own role.
- Follow national legislation, policies and guidance in adult social care settings, relating to health and safety within the scope of own role.
- Consider the human rights of individuals in adult social care settings, in line with organisational policies relating to equity, diversity and inclusion to support an open culture.
- Demonstrate a duty of candour, and duty of care acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
- Apply a person-centred, co-produced approach when developing relationships with individuals to support their health and wellbeing.
- Assist with conducting risk assessments, which focus on positive risk taking, to ensure the safety of yourself and others.
- Apply the principles of positive and proactive care and support for those with lived experience to proactively avoid or reduce escalation, de-escalate, and manage conflict.
- Customise information, advice and guidance to individuals with or without capacity or their representative to make informed, independent choices and decisions.
- Adapt approach to care and support for individuals with lived experience to meet their current and evolving cognitive and physical needs and conditions.
- Recognise and respect how an individuals capacity determines their ability to make informed decisions about their needs.
- Identify and respond to signs and symptoms of changes in the physical and mental capacity, mental health and wellbeing of those with lived experience, and monitor, record and report changes.
- Use appropriate communication methods that are adapted to respond to the needs of individuals, stakeholders and family members in adult social care settings, including verbal, written, non-verbal and digital communication.
- Develop personal resilience and access support to maintain wellbeing of self.
- Use record keeping systems to maintain clear and accurate records of interactions with individuals, and others ensuring security of information and data.
- Apply methods of digital working and communication and new care technologies to support improvements in own work setting.
- Record learning opportunities in line with organisational policies that support lifelong learning and meet the relevant standards.
- Record, use feedback and supervision to improve own practice to identify and support the development of individual goals and career opportunities.
- Contribute and agree to the personal development plan demonstrating support required for new learning goals and reflection on actual practice.
- Monitors safe and effective administration of medicines in accordance with national and organisational policies and the limitations of own role.
Training schedule
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Good Time-Management
- Reliable
- Adaptable
- Compassionate
- Kindness
- Empathy
Other requirements
Marmora Care Home is a very busy home and there will be times throughout the day where you may be standing for long periods of time.
Due to specialising in Dementia care, residents living at Marmora will sometimes experience behaviours that may be challenging to others. The successful candidate will be fully trained and supported with effective management of this, but this may be daunting in the first instance for someone that has not had any experience of these types of behaviours before.
Marmora Care Home is also a palliative care home and supports individuals at the end of their lives. Staff have full training on this but some can find this initially quite overwhelming and upsetting. On-going emotional support is provided to all staff members employed at Marmora Care Home.
As the apprentice becomes more confident and knowledgeable within their role, they will be expected to work weekend shifts and occasionally change their normal shift patterns in order to cover staff absences and in order to support the service where required.
About this employer
Marmora Care Home is a small friendly residential home specialising in supporting people with Dementia. The service employs between 30-35 staff of which many of these are long-serving staff members making it an ideal environment for someone new to care to venture into the care world.
After this apprenticeship
- May lead to a permanent position once the apprenticeship has successfully been completed and the opportunity to go on and gain a Level 3 Diploma in adult care
- Wage increases yearly and wage increases further once Level 2 qualification is gained
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
Lisa Welsh
manager@marmoracarehome.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000034216.
Apply now
Closes in 14 days (Monday 15 June 2026 at 11:59pm)