Health Care Assistant - nights

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

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Wages before payday

Discounts on retail & lifestyle

DBS check

24/7 counselling & support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant for night shifts at Otterburn care home in Birmingham. The role is full time, 36 hours per week, with a night schedule and a starting rate of £12.71 per hour, rising to £12.81 after completion of the Exemplar care certificate.

You will support adults with complex care needs, helping them live their best lives, with training and progression opportunities, robust supervision and a values-driven culture.

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications required; relevant experience preferred but not essential.
• Induction and training provided on joining the team.

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.

Skills

Caring

Compassion

Communication

Teamwork

Job description

Health Care Assistant - nights

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Otterburn

Location: Brandwood Park Road, Birmingham, B14 6QX

Contract type: Full time, 36 hours per week NIGHTS

Rate: £12.71 per hour (£12.81 upon completion of Exemplar care certificate)

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 Otterburn care home in Birmingham.

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

Otterburn 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 Huntington’s disease and strokes.

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.