Health Care Assistant – Days

Exemplar Health Care; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wages before payday

Discounts on retail & lifestyle

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant for Potters Green in Rotherham. The role involves supporting adults with complex care needs, providing personal care, helping at meal times and contributing to wellbeing and activity planning.

The position offers flexible shifts (8am-1pm and 4pm-8pm) with a starting rate of £12.71 per hour, rising to £12.81 after completion of the Exemplar Care Certificate. Training and induction provided.

Qualifications

• We value caring and compassionate attitude; no formal qualifications required.

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

Position: Health Care Assistant – Days

Care home: Potters Green

Location: Rotherham, S64 5UW

Contract type: Full-Time & Part-Time shifts available including flexi shifts 8am-1pm & 4pm-8pm

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

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

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

Potters Green 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, dementia, neuro-disabilities including acquired brain injuries, Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, and physical health needs. The home’s Roman Unit is exclusively for those who are assigned male at birth.

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.

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.