Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care Services Limited; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider in the UK is seeking Health Care Assistants to support adults living with complex care needs at Pathways care home. Responsibilities include assisting with daily routines, meal times, social activities, and maintaining care records. Candidates should have experience in care, be empathetic, and possess strong communication skills. The position offers a variety of rewards, including supervision and learning opportunities, access to wages before payday, and retail discounts.

Benefits

Regular supervision and support

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience with people with complex needs.
• Ability to defuse challenging situations effectively.
• Strong listening and communication capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with daily routines and personal care.
• Assist individuals during meal times.
• Maintain accurate care records.
• Encourage participation in social activities.

Skills

Experience in a similar care environment

Caring and understanding demeanor

Ability to manage challenging situations

Energetic and outgoing

Good listening and communication skills

Job description

Overview

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 daily routines, and 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

Above all, you are someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You're also:

• experienced in a similar care environment, with people with complex needs
• 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.

Join us as our new Health Care Assistant (also known as Support Workers) at Pathways care home in Sutton-in-Ashfield.

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

Pathways is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers. We support adults living with a learning disability and/or autism. As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress. 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