Health Care Assistant - Nights

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

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Wages paid before payday

Discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant for night shifts at Potters Green care home in Rotherham. You will support adults with complex care needs to lead fulfilling lives, providing personal care and ensuring their comfort.

This role offers a rewarding sense of achievement as you make a real difference every day. Training, induction and ongoing development are provided to help you grow within the Exemplar Health Care family.

Qualifications

• Experience in care is not essential.
• We value our Exemplar Health Care values: fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Providing personal care to residents.
• Assisting residents at meal times.
• Understanding individual health and wellbeing needs.
• Encouraging and supporting social activities inside and outside the home.
• Promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect.
• Completing and maintaining care records.

Skills

Caring

Calm under pressure

Great communicator

Listening skills

Job description

Position: Health Care Assistant - Nights

Care home: Potters Green

Location: Rotherham, S64 5UW

Contract type: Full-Time hours available

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.

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.