Healthcare Assistant – Full Time – Lyndhurst

Catering; Lyndhurst; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sponsorship available

Visa sponsorship available

Accommodation assistance

Job summary

Excelsis Healthcare is seeking Healthcare Assistants for a full-time role in Lyndhurst, UK. The position requires a driving licence and offers sponsorship where applicable. Salary is £12.82 per hour, with accommodation assistance and visa sponsorship available.

You will work to support residents with personal care, nutrition, and meaningful engagement, reporting concerns to the Household Lead. The ideal candidate shows compassion, professionalism, and the ability to multitask in a busy care home

Qualifications

• Minimum 1-year experience as a Health Care Assistant in a care home setting.
• Good understanding of the needs of older people.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build professional relationships.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage priorities.
• Flexible attitude towards hours.
• Compassionate, respectful and caring approach.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal care (washing, dressing, and grooming).
• Support eating and drinking.
• Build trusting relationships with residents and respond to needs.
• Create a positive mealtime environment; observe nutritional status.
• Advocate for residents and promote their dignity.
• Encourage residents to participate in meaningful engagement.
• Report concerns to the Household Lead.

Skills

Compassionate

Communication skills

Teamwork

Multitasking

Ability to work alone

Interpersonal skills

Driving licence

Job description

Excelsis Healthcare is looking for Healthcare assistants in the UK.

The candidate must be looking to start ASAP.

Full-Time Care Assistant Required

• Sponsorship Available
• DL is Mandatory

Salary: £12.82 per hour

What will your typical day involve?

• Assisting with personal care (washing, dressing, and grooming)
• Supporting eating and drinking
• Building good and trusting relationships with residents and always being open and responsive to their questions and needs
• Creating a positive mealtime environment, whilst observing changes in nutritional status
• Acting as an advocate for residents and promoting their dignity
• Supporting and encouraging residents to participate in meaningful engagement
• Reporting any concerns to the Household Lead

Whom are we looking for?

We ask our team members to take pride in their work, ensuring tasks are completed to a high standard, whilst maintaining an organized environment. Often managing multiple requests at once, team members need to be comfortable multitasking and able to work on their own initiative, unsupervised. Where necessary, the role will require working with other teams to ensure our residents are happy.

It is important that our team members can offer a cheerful, compassionate, respectful, and caring approach and have good communication and interpersonal skills. Finally, we ask for a good understanding of the needs of older people and the desire to make a positive contribution to the lives of others.

However, the following is essential:

• A compassionate, respectful, and caring approach
• Minimum 1-year experience as a Health care Assistant in a Care home Setting
• A good understanding of the needs of older people
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build professional relationships and work well within a team
• Basic IT skills and the ability to use a computer
• Be able to work alone under pressure whilst managing and prioritizing tasks
• A flexible attitude towards tasks and hours
• A professional presentation and positive attitude, with a customer-orientated and friendly outlook.

What else do we offer?

• A friendly, supportive, team working environment
• Highly competitive rates of pay
• Visa sponsorship available
• Accommodation Assistance

If you meet the above requirements, we would love to hear from you!

It is very important to us that, as well as meeting the job description, you can bring a wealth of experience and qualities that make you ideal for working with the Residents on a daily basis.

Safeguarding

All applications will be dealt with on an individual basis in accordance with policy and organizational requirement.

Salary: £12.82/hour

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Lyndhurst, Hampshire