Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Newton-le-Willows; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free DBS check

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Access to wages before payday

24/ 7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant for Fairburn Mews care home in Castleford. You will support adults with complex care needs, helping with personal care, meals and daily activities, while upholding dignity and independence.

This full-time role is 42 hours per week, with a rate of £13.81 per hour on completion of the Care Certificate, offering rewarding work and progression opportunities within Exemplar Health Care.

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, both in and out of the home
• promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect
• completing and maintaining care records

Job description

Health Care Assistant

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Fairburn Mews

Location: Wheldon Road, Castleford, WF10 2PY

Contract type: Full time, 42 hours per week including alternative weekends

Rate: £13.81 per hour on completion of Care Certificate

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Fairburn Mews 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

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

We support adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’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.