Health Care Assistant

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

Job summary

A leading care provider in Birmingham is looking for a Health Care Assistant to provide support to individuals in a care home setting. You will assist with personal care, meals, and encourage social activities. No prior experience in care is essential as comprehensive training is provided. The position offers flexible hours and a supportive environment with great perks and career 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 caring role is valuable, but not required.
• Must align with the core values: fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, and teamwork.
• Ability to handle challenging situations calmly.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with personal care needs.
• Assist with meal times.
• Understand individual health and wellbeing needs.
• Encourage participation in social activities.
• Complete and maintain care records.

Skills

Caring and kind

Energetic and outgoing

Great listener

Effective communication

Job description

Overview

Position: Health Care Assistant. Care home: Otterburn. Location: Brandwood Park Road, Birmingham, B14 6QX. Contract type 36, 42 or 48 Hours Per Week (DAYS). Rate: £12.31 Per Hour on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate. Care home CQC rating: Rated ‘Good’ by CQC.

About Exemplar Health Care

Otterburn is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers. We support adults living with dementia, complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’s disease and strokes. 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.

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 us on 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.