Health Care Assistant – part time hours

Exemplar Health Care; Wyke; Hybrid; GBP 5,200 - 5,600; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Access to wages before payday

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care's Wykewood care home in Wyke is seeking a Health Care Assistant for part-time weekend shifts (11am-2pm Sat/Sun and 11am-4pm Sun). You will support adults with complex care needs, helping with personal care, meals, and daily activities while maintaining dignity and independence.

Training, DBS checks and ongoing development are provided. Experience is essential; we welcome and value compassionate, energetic individuals with a positive attitude.

Qualifications

• Experience is essential for this role.
• Induction, buddy and ongoing training provided to help you settle in and grow.

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

Kind

Understanding

Calm

Great listener

Communicator

Energetic

Outgoing

Positive attitude

Job description

# Health Care Assistant - part time hoursWyke, BD12 8AA**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**Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Wykewood care home in Bradford.**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**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.Download our job description to read more:https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1029766837/### **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.### **How to apply**Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email [e-mail] note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation. If you’re asked for money in connection with a role, please contact [e-mail].