Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Brownhills; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant at Shire Oaks Court in Walsall Wood. You will support adults with complex care needs, helping with personal care, meals and daily activities to enable them to live their best lives.

No two days are the same, but you will be part of a team that values fun, integrity and teamwork, with induction and ongoing training to help you grow in the role.

Qualifications

• Experience is valued but not essential for this role.
• Ability to align with Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Support people with personal care needs.
• Assist with meals and feeding where required.
• Understand and monitor individual health and wellbeing needs.
• Encourage participation in social activities inside and outside the home.
• Promote choice, dignity, independence and respect.
• Complete and maintain care records.

Skills

Caring

Communication

Empathy

Calm demeanor

Great listener

Energetic

Job description

Position: Health Care Assistant
Care home: Shire Oaks Court
Location: 6 Brownhills Road, Walsall Wood, Walsall, WS8 7BP
Contract type: Full time, 36, 42, 48 hours per week
Rate: £12.71 per hour
Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Shire Oaks Court care home in Walsall.
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

Shire Oaks Court 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.

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.

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.