Health Care Assistant

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

Benefits offered by this job

Wages paid before payday

DBS check provided

Blue Light Card eligibility

Counselling support

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care’s Yarningdale care home in Ripley seeks a Health Care Assistant to support adults with complex care needs, helping them live their best lives with dignity and person-centered care.

This full-time role (42 hours per week, weekends required) offers induction and ongoing training, with a focus on compassion, integrity, and teamwork. You will play a key part in daily living activities and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required; values of care, kindness and respect are essential.
• Good communication and be a strong listener; able to work as part of a team.
• Willingness to learn and follow training and induction programmes.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Compassion

Communication

Empathy

Teamwork

Job description

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Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Yarningdale

Location: Hollywell Avenue, Codnor, Ripley, DE5 9SG

Contract type: Full time, 42 hours per week, weekends required

Rate: £13.71

Care home CQC rating: Rated 'Good' by CQC

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

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

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

We support adults living with dementia, complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including brain injuries and 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.