Health Care Assistant

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

Job summary

A national care provider in Birmingham is seeking a caring and compassionate Health Care Assistant. In this role, you'll support adults with complex care needs, helping them live their best lives. Responsibilities include personal care assistance, meal support, and promoting social activities. No prior experience is required, as full training will be provided. Competitive pay and great benefits are included, along with opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Career prospects

Qualifications

• No prior experience required, but relevant experience is valued.
• Must identify with values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with personal care.
• Assist with meal times.
• Understand health and wellbeing needs.
• Encourage participation in social activities.
• Promote dignity, independence, and respect.
• Maintain care records.

Skills

Caring and compassionate

Strong communication skills

Ability to handle challenging situations

Energetic and positive attitude

Job description

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Blackmoor

Location: 21 Blackmoor Croft, Birmingham B33 0PE

Contract type: 36, 42, or 48 Hours Per Week. 12 hour shifts 8-8

Rate: £12.21 increasing to £12.31 on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Blackmoor care home in Birmingham.

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 Blackmoor

Blackmoor is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.

We support adults living with complex mental health needs, brain injuries, physical disabilities 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.

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

• 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.