Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Aberford; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 14,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care in Bradford is seeking a Health Care Assistant to join Wykewood care home. You will support adults with complex care needs and contribute to their well-being and independence.

Shifts are part-time, with 11am-2pm on Saturdays and Sundays and 11am-4pm on Sundays. Experience is essential; applicants must be eligible to work in the UK. Exemplar Health Care values care, integrity and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Experience is essential for this role.
• Authorsed to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Caring

Compassionate

Positive attitude

Excellent listener

Good communicator

Job description

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Wykewood

Location: Wyke, Bradford

Contract type: Part time fixed shift patterns available: 11am-2pm Saturday and Sunday & 11am-4pm Sunday

Rate: £12.71 per hour (£12.81 on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)

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 Wykewood care home in Bradford.

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

Wykewood 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:

• 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.

Experience is 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.

Experience is essential for this role, and 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.

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.