Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care Services Limited; North Elmsall; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nursing care provider in Pontefract seeks a Health Care Assistant to support adults with complex care needs. You will help with personal care, meal assistance, and social activities in a new state-of-the-art home. This role offers stability, training, and great benefits. Join us to make a difference in people's lives!

Benefits

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Regular supervision and career prospects

Qualifications

• Identifies with values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, and teamwork.
• Ability to handle challenging situations calmly.

Responsibilities

• Support people with personal care.
• Assist individuals at meal times.
• Maintain care records.

Skills

Caring

Communication

Calmness

Energetic and outgoing

Job description

Overview

Position: Health Care Assistant
Care home: Hamilton Springs
Location: Westfield Lane, South Elmsall, Pontefract, WF9 2JY
Contract type: Permanent - Full Time or Part Time
Rate: £13.31 per hour on completion of Care Certificate

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Hamilton Springs care home in Pontefract.

As a Health Care Assistant, you’ll support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives. This is a brand new team in a state of the art, purpose built home where you’ll have the chance to really make your mark. Exemplar Health Care is a leading provider with many homes rated ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’.

Hamilton Springs is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers. When open, Hamilton Springs will support adults living with acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia and physical disabilities. We offer stable and secure employment opportunities, great benefits and 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. No two days will be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• 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

We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers, giving you more time to spend with the people you support.

Download our job description to read more:

https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1029766837/

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
• able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations
• 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

We offer great rewards and perks including:

• 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

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.

For an informal chat about joining us, call 01977 630830 or email [e-mail]

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.