Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Wyke; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Peer support

Learning opportunities

Career prospects

Wages before payday

Discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care in Wyke (Bradford) is seeking a Health Care Assistant to support adults with complex care needs at Wykewood care home. You will help with personal care, meals, and daily wellbeing, while promoting dignity, independence, and social participation.

A supportive induction and training are provided. The role offers various full-time contracts, with benefits including supervision, learning opportunities, DBS check, and employee discounts.

Qualifications

• Experience is essential for this role.
• Caring, kind, understanding and calm.
• Energetic and outgoing with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Great listener and communicator.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Caring

Compassionate

Communication

Listening

Positive attitude

Job description

# Health Care AssistantWyke, BD12 8AA**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.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.Download our job description to read more:https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1029766837/### **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.### **How to apply**Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email [e-mail] 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.We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation. If you’re asked for money in connection with a role, please contact [e-mail].