Want to become a care assistant?

Are you thinking of becoming a care assistant? Find out if care assistant is the right job for you. Get answers to the following questions: What does a care assistant do? What personality traits do care assistants have? Will robots replace care assistants? How much does a care assistant earn and is it a job in high demand?

Want to know what personality traits you have and if the job of care assistant fits your personality? Take the free career aptitude test.

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What does a care assistant do?

Help the elderly, people in rehab or people with a disability with daily activities. At the patient's home or in a care facility. Tasks that are carried out in a residential environment can consist of household duties (making beds, doing laundry and dishes) and cooking. Additionally, sometimes you need to help the patient regarding personal care. To do this work, you must be helpful, communicative and have a can-do attitude.

What personality traits do care assistants have?

There are two characteristics many care assistants have in common. Care assistants are often human-oriented (score highly in the SOCIAL category) and prefer manual labour (score highly in the REALISTIC category). Do you have the same personality? Perhaps the profession of care assistant would suit you.

Curious which professions are characterised by the same two personality traits as care assistants? Go to the career choice profiles. Here you can find professions with the same profile. But you can also find professions with other characteristics. Which professions do you like and which professions don’t appeal?

 

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Will robots replace care assistants?

Many jobs will be replaced by robots. How robot-proof are care assistants? The chances of robotisation of a care assistant’s activities amount to 74%. This means that there is a HIGH CHANCE that the tasks and activities performed by care assistants will be taken over by robots and smart software within the next 20 years.

 

Care Assistant Vacancies and Salary

Want to find out what you can expect from your next career move as a care assistant? How much does a care assistant earn and is it a job in high demand? You can find out the average annual salary and current vacancies at Adzuna. Adzuna collects all the vacancies for care assistants in one place and has the largest collection of live salary data.

Want to find more jobs as a care assistant in other countries?

Go to Jooble for jobs as care assistant all over the world.

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