Bank Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Access to wages before payday

Discounts

Free DBS check

Counselling support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Neville Court is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading nursing care provider in the country, and is seeking a Bank Health Care Assistant in Kendray, Barnsley. You’ll support adults with complex care needs to live their best lives with personal care, meals, and daily activities in a compassionate team.

This role offers induction, ongoing training, and opportunities to learn, progress and grow within Exemplar Health Care. DBS check and supportive benefits are provided as part of the package.

Qualifications

• Experience in care is not essential but helpful.
• Willingness to learn and develop within Exemplar Health Care values.
• Ability to work as part of a supportive team.

Responsibilities

• Supporting people with their personal care.
• Assisting people at meal times.
• Understanding individual health and wellbeing needs.
• Encouraging participation in social activities inside and outside the home.
• Promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect.
• Completing and maintaining care records.

Skills

Caring & calm

Resilient

Team player

Communication

EPBS training

Empathy

Job description

Bank Health Care Assistant

Position: Bank Health Care Assistant

Care home: Neville Court

Location: Kendray, Barnsley, S70 3HF

Contract type: Bank

Rate: £14.24 per hour

Care home CQC rating: Good

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Neville Court care home in Kendray, Barnsley.

As a Health Care Assistant, you’ll support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives.

This role will give you a tremendous sense of achievement and pride – you’ll be making a real difference each and every day.

About Exemplar Health Care

Neville Court is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.

We support adults living with mental health conditions and neuro-disabilities such as brain injuries and Huntington’s disease. Some of the people we support display behaviours of concern.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

Our Health Care Assistants support people to live their best lives, whatever that looks like to them.

• supporting people with their personal care
• assisting people at meal times
• understanding individual health and wellbeing needs
• encouraging and supporting people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home
• promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect
• completing and maintaining care records.

About you

We value relevant experience and qualifications, but they aren’t essential for this role.

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also:

• caring, kind, understanding and calm
• resilient
• able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations
• able to manage personal emotions in difficult circumstances
• a great team player
• able to complete all aspects of physical EPBS training to cope with the demands of the role
• energetic and outgoing, with a positive, can-do attitude
• a great listener and communicator.

You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do.

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

What we offer

• regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
• access to wages before payday
• retail and lifestyle discounts
• free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility.