Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Padiham; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care's Wytham Lodge in Burnley is seeking a Health Care Assistant to support adults with complex care needs. The role offers varied shift patterns (8am-8pm, 8pm-8am, 8am-6pm, 6pm-12am, 8pm-12am) and a rate of £12.81 per hour upon completion of the exemplar care certificate.

You will contribute to a person-centred approach, help with personal care and meals, encourage participation in activities, and maintain care records in a brand-new, purpose-built home.

Qualifications

• We value relevant experience and qualifications, but they aren’t essential for this role.

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.

Skills

Caring

Good listener

Communication

Calm under pressure

Job description

Health Care Assistant

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Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Wytham Lodge

Location: Wytham Street, Padiham, Burnley, BB12 7DX

Contract type: Various hours available 8am-8pm, 8pm-8am, 8am-6pm, 6pm–12am, 8pm-12am

Rate: £12.81 upon completion of exemplar care certificate

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

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

This is an exciting opportunity to join a brand new team, in a state of the art, purpose built home. You’ll have the chance to really make your mark.

About Exemplar Health Care

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

They 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.