Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Early wage access

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant in Hull to support adults with complex care needs at St Andrew’s Court. The role offers varied shifts, including day and night options, and emphasizes compassionate, person-centered care.

You’ll help with personal care, meals, activity engagement, and documenting care records, contributing to a supportive home environment and the company’s values of dignity and respect.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience and qualifications valued but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Supporting people with their personal care.
• Assisting with meals.
• Understanding individual health and wellbeing needs.
• Encouraging and supporting participation in social activities, inside and outside the home.
• Promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect.
• Completing and maintaining care records.

Skills

Caring

Job description

Position: Health Care Assistant

Location: Hull, HU3

Contract type: Various shifts available, including 8:00am–8:00pm, and 8:00pm–8:00am.

Rate: £12.81 on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate

Care home CQC rating: Rated ‘Good’ by CQC

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at St Andrew’s Court care home in Hull.

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

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

We support adults living with complex mental health needs, dementia and neuro-disabilities including brain injuries, 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.