Health Care Assistant - part time

Exemplar Health Care; Newton-le-Willows; Sur place; GBP 16 000 - 22 000; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Free DBS check

Blue Light Card eligibility

Wages before payday

Career development opportunities

Counselling and support 24/7

Discounts on retail and lifestyle

Résumé du poste

Exemplar Health Care's Fairburn Mews care home in Castleford is hiring a part-time Health Care Assistant. The role involves supporting adults with complex care needs to live their best lives, with shifts 6.00am-2.00pm or 6.00pm-2.00am, totaling 28 hours per week.

No formal qualifications are essential; we provide induction, buddy support and ongoing training to help you grow. The rate is £13.71 per hour, with opportunities for development within Exemplar Health Care.

Qualifications

• Experience not required for this role; training provided.
• Strong communication and listening skills are important.
• Empathy, calmness and reliability in challenging situations.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Caring

Communication

Description du poste

Health Care Assistant - part time

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Position: Part-Time Health Care Assistant

Care home: Fairburn Mews

Location: Wheldon Road, Castleford, WF10 2PY

Contract type: 28 hours per week, 6.00am to 2.00pm or 6.00pm to 2.00am, 3 shifts one week, then 4 shifts the following week.

Rate: £13.71 per hour

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

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

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

We support adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’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.

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.