Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading provider in the care sector as a Health Care Assistant at Wheldale Heights in Castleford. Your role will involve supporting adults with complex care needs, ensuring their dignity and independence, and making a real difference in their lives daily. Enjoy a supportive work environment with excellent training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Regular supervision and peer support

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role is valued but not essential.
• Able to defuse challenging situations effectively.
• Identifies with company values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Support people with personal care and meal times.
• Understand individual health and wellbeing needs.
• Encourage participation in social activities.

Skills

Caring

Kind

Understanding

Calm

Energetic

Outgoing

Good communication

Job description

Care Assistant

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Position:Health Care Assistant

Care home: Wheldale Heights
Location: Castleford, WF10 2PY
Contract type: Full time, 42 hours per week, 12 hours shifts, 8.00am - 8.00pm
Rate:£13.21 up to £13.56 per hour (dependent on qualifications)

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Wheldale Heightscare home in Castleford.

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.

And, you can be proud to work for one of the country’s leading providers. The number of our homes rated ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’ far exceeds the national average.

About Exemplar Health Care

Wheldale Heights is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.

We support adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities, including Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease.

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.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• supportingpeople with their personal care
• assistingpeople at meal times
• understandingindividual health and wellbeing needs
• encouragingand supporting people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home
• promotingchoice, dignity, independence and respect
• completing and maintainingcare records.

We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers. There are usually up to six colleagues on each unit that supports around ten people, 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’.

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.