Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wages before payday

Free DBS check

Counselling support

Blue Light Card

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care’s Pathways care home in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking a Health Care Assistant to support adults living with complex care needs. You will help with daily routines, personal care, meals, and social activities, while promoting dignity and independence.

Two shifts are available: days and nights on a 12-hour pattern. We offer induction and ongoing training to help you develop and progress within Exemplar Health Care.

Qualifications

• Six months experience in a care setting is required, but qualifications aren’t essential for this role.

Responsibilities

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

Education

Care Certificate

Job description

Health Care Assistant

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Pathways

Location: Kingfisher Way, Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4BR

Contract type: Full time flexibility required 12 hour shifts days and nights

Rate: £13.21 per hour (increasing to £13.31 upon completion of Exemplar care certificate)

Care home CQC rating: Rated ‘Good’ by CQC

Are you an experienced, caring, and cheerful person with lots to give?

Join us as our new Health Care Assistant (also known as Support Workers) at Pathways care home in Sutton-in-Ashfield.

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

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

We support adults living with a learning disability and/or autism.

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 daily routines, and 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, six months experience in a care setting is required but qualifications 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.

We’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

What we offer

• 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.