Health Care Assistant - part time

Exemplar Health Care; Leeds; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free DBS check

Wages access before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care’s Copperfields care home in Cross Green, Leeds, is looking for a Health Care Assistant on a part-time basis. The role includes assisting residents with personal care and daily activities, with shifts from 6pm-12am, 10am-6pm, and 6am-10am.

The role offers the chance to contribute to high-quality care in a supportive environment. Starting rate is £12.71 per hour, increasing to £12.81 after completion of the Exemplar Healthcare certificate.

Qualifications

• Experience and qualifications valued, but not essential.
• Caring, compassionate and cheerful personality.

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 - Part Time

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Copperfields

Location: Cross Green, Leeds

Contract type: Part time hours - 6pm to 12am, 10am to 6pm, 6am to 10am available

Rate: £12.71 per hour (increasing to £12.81 upon completion of Exemplar Healthcare certificate)

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

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

Copperfields is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.

We support adults living with complex health needs and mixed diagnoses including brain injuries, dementia, mental health conditions, neuro-disabilities and physical disabilities.

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.