Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; High Lane; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Blue Light Card eligibility

Free DBS check

Wage access before payday

24/7 counselling and support

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is hiring a Health Care Assistant at Adswood Lodge in Stockport. The role supports adults with complex care needs, with day and night shifts including 10am–6pm days and 8pm–1am nights. The position offers £13.21 per hour and the chance to make a meaningful difference daily.

Join our team to provide compassionate, dignified care, help with personal needs, meals, and activity participation, and maintain clear care records in a supportive home environment.

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required, but caring experience or empathy is valued.
• Ability to follow care plans and maintain records.

Responsibilities

• Providing personal care to residents.
• Assisting with meals and feeding as needed.
• Understanding and monitoring health and wellbeing needs.
• Encouraging participation in social activities inside and outside the home.
• Promoting dignity, independence and respect for residents.
• Completing and maintaining care records.

Skills

Personal care

Meal support

Health monitoring

Documentation

Communication

Tools

None

Job description

Position

Health Care Assistant - days

Care home

Adswood Lodge

Location

Stockport, SK3 8HZ

Contract type

Permanent, 10am to 6pm days and 8pm to 1am nights

Rate

£13.21 per hour

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

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

Adswood Lodge is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.

We support adults living with complex mental health needs 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

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.

We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation. If you’re asked for money in connection with a role, please contact [e-mail].