Health Care Assistant - part time hours

Exemplar Health Care; Wyke; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Peer support

Learning opportunities

Career progression

Wage advances before payday

Discounts: retail & lifestyle

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant in Wyke to support residents in a care home setting. You will help with personal care, meals, health needs, and social activities, promoting dignity and choice while maintaining accurate care records.

The role requires a caring, calm, and communicative individual who can work as part of a friendly team and adapt to varying daily tasks. Full induction and ongoing training are provided.

Qualifications

• Experience is essential for this role.

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 personality

Good communication

Calm under pressure

Team player

Job description

Health Care Assistant - part time hours

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Wykewood

Location: Wyke, Bradford

Contract type: Part time fixed shift patterns available: 11am-2pm Saturday and Sunday & 11am-4pm Sunday

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

Care home CQC rating: Good

About Exemplar Health Care

Wykewood 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 and neuro-disabilities, including Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’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

Experience is 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.

Experience is essential for this role, and 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.