Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Highburton; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision, peer support, and

learning opportunities and careerPros“

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant for weekend night shifts at Lepton Heights in Huddersfield. You will support adults with complex care needs to live their best lives and provide personal care, meals, and wellbeing support.

The role involves maintaining care records, promoting dignity and independence, and joining a team with strong values. Training and induction are provided, with opportunities to develop in a caring, rewarding environment.

Qualifications

• Experience not required; supportive induction provided.
• Ability to work weekend night shifts and unsocial hours.
• Commitment to Exemplar Health Care values: fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, teamwork.

Responsibilities

• 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
• promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect
• completing and maintaining care records

Skills

Personal care

Meal assistance

Health and wellbeing

Social activity support

Dignity and respect

Record keeping

Job description

Health Care Assistant - weekend nights

Position: Health Care Assistant - Weekend Nights

Care home: Lepton Heights

Location: 36 Wakefield Road, Fenay Bridge, Huddersfield, HD8 0BG

Contract type: 8.00pm - 8.00am or 10.00pm - 6.00am

Rate: £12.71 per hour

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as a Health Care Assistant at Lepton Heights care home in Huddersfield.

As a Health Care Assistant, you’ll support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives.

About Exemplar Health Care

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

Lepton Heights supports adults living with complex needs, such as acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia and physical disabilities.

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.

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 with Wagestream
• 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