Health Care Assistant

Health Care Assistant

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Woodside Place
Location: Woodside Avenue, Telford, TF7 5FQ
Contract type: Part Time or Full Time 24, 36, 42 or 48 hours Per Week
Rate: £12.21 Per Hour

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

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 new team in a state-of-the-art, purpose-built home. You’ll have the chance to really make your mark.

And you can be proud to work for one of the country’s leading providers. The number of our homes rated ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’ far exceeds the national average.

About Exemplar Health Care

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

We support adults living with complex needs arising from brain injuries, dementia, mental health conditions, and neuro-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:

1. Supporting people with their personal care
2. Assisting people at meal times
3. Understanding individual health and wellbeing needs
4. Encouraging and supporting people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home
5. Promoting choice, dignity, independence, and respect
6. Completing and maintaining care records

We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers, giving you more time to spend with the people you support.

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:

1. Caring, kind, understanding, and calm
2. Able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations
3. Energetic and outgoing, with a positive, can-do attitude
4. 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:

1. Regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities, and career prospects
2. Access to wages before payday
3. Retail and lifestyle discounts
4. Free DBS check
5. 24/7 counselling and support
6. Blue Light Card eligibility

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.

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.