Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; North Elmsall; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Access to wages before payday

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is recruiting a Health Care Assistant for Bennett Court in Pontefract. This full-time role (42 hours per week) includes night shifts and a pay rate of £13.71 per hour.

You’ll support adults with complex care needs to live their best lives in a compassionate, respectful home. As part of a dedicated team you’ll assist with personal care, meals, and daily activities, maintaining care records and liaising with families to promote the home’s quality of life.

Qualifications

• We value relevant experience and qualifications, but they aren’t essential for this role.
• You’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and 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, both in and out of the home
• promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect
• completing and maintaining care records
• liaising with friends, relatives and other stake holders and promoting the profile of the home.

Skills

Caring

Compassionate

Calm under pressure

Excellent communication

Job description

Health Care Assistant

Position: Health Care AssistantCare home: Bennett CourtLocation: South Elmsall, Pontefract, WF9 2TFContract type: Full-time, 42 hours per week, Nights, 12 hour shiftsRate: £13.71 per hourCare home CQC rating: Good

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

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

Bennett Court 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. We also provide separate supported living facilities, where people can lead a more independent life.

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 needsencouraging 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
• liaising with friends, relatives and other stake holders and promoting the profile of the home.

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.