Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Ledsham; Presencial; GBP 17 000 - 22 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Free DBS check

Wages on demand

24/7 counselling

Blue Light Card eligibility

Resumo da oferta

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant for Wheldale Heights care home in Castleford. You will support adults with complex care needs to live their best lives, with 12-hour shift patterns (8:00–20:00 or 20:00–08:00) and a rate of £13.71 per hour.

The role aims to provide a sense of achievement and pride, making a real difference daily. You'll help with personal care, meals, and health monitoring, while promoting dignity, independence and social participation.

Qualificações

• Relevant experience and qualifications are valued but not essential.

Responsabilidades

• 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
• complete and maintaining care records.

Conhecimentos

Caring

Kind

Calm

Good listener

Communication

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Health Care Assistant

Position: Care Assistant

Care home: Wheldale Heights

Location: Castleford, WF10 2PY

Contract type: Various hours available, 12 hours shifts, 8.00am - 8.00pm or 8.00pm - 8.00am

Rate: £13.71 per hour

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

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

Wheldale Heights 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
• complete 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.