Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Wyke; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Wages before payday

Discounts

DBS check

Counselling support

Blue Light Card

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant at Wykewood care home in Bradford, Wyke. The role supports adults with complex care needs to live their best lives, delivering personal care, mealtime support and wellbeing monitoring.

We value compassion and resilience; you’ll join a team with training, induction and ongoing development while earning £12.71 per hour (£12.81 after Exemplar Care Certificate completion). The position offers stability and a caring work culture.

Qualifications

• Experience is essential for this role.
• You are caring, kind, understanding and calm.
• Able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations.

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.

Job description

Health Care Assistant

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Wykewood

Location: Wyke, Bradford

Contract type: Various full time contracts available

Rate: £12.71 per hour (£12.81 on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)

Care 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 Wykewood care home in Bradford.

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

Wykewood 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.

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.

• 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

Experience is 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.

Experience is essential for this role, and 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.