Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care Services Limited; Brownhills; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider in the UK seeks a caring and compassionate Health Care Assistant for their Walsall care home. In this role, you will support adults with complex care needs, fostering dignity and independence. Join a team that values teamwork, and enjoy excellent career progression and training opportunities. This position promises a fulfilling career making a real difference in people's lives.

Benefits

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Qualifications

• Relevant experience and qualifications are valued but not essential.
• Ability to deal with challenging situations.
• Must identify with values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Supporting individuals with personal care.
• Assisting during meal times.
• Encouraging social activities both in and out of the home.
• Completing and maintaining care records.

Skills

Caring

Understanding

Communication

Calmness

Energetic

Positive attitude

Job description

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

• 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.