Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Manchester; 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

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care’s Walton Grove care home in Oldham is hiring a Health Care Assistant to support adults with complex care needs. You’ll provide personal care, assist at meals, monitor wellbeing and help residents participate in activities, while upholding dignity and respect.

No two days are the same; you’ll work flexibly across 8am-8pm, 8pm-8am or 10am-10pm shifts with weekend availability. We offer induction, training, and opportunities to learn and progress in a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience and qualifications are valued but not essential.
• Exemplar Health Care values: fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.
• Care about people: you are caring, kind, understanding and calm.
• Ability to handle challenging situations calmly and professionally.
• Energetic, outgoing and has a positive, can-do attitude.
• You are a great listener and communicator.

Responsibilities

• Support people with their personal care.
• Assist people at meal times.
• Understand individual health and wellbeing needs.
• Encourage and support participation in social activities inside and outside the home.
• Promote choice, dignity, independence and respect.
• Complete and maintain care records.

Skills

Caring

Communication

Calm under pressure

Energetic & outgoing

Active listening

Job description

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Walton Grove

Location: 1 Guido Street, Failsworth, Oldham, M35 0ALam

Contract type: Full and part time hours available, 8am-8pm, 8pm-8am, 10am-10pm - Flexibility and weekend availability needed.

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 Walton Grove care home in Oldham.

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

About Exemplar Health Care

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

We support adults living with 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.

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.