Nights Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Ltd; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Rochdale is looking for a compassionate Health Care Assistant. You will support adults with complex care needs, ensuring their dignity, independence, and wellbeing. Responsibilities include personal care, meal assistance, and promoting social activities. Ideal candidates are caring, energetic, and effective communicators. Join us to make a real difference every day!

Benefits

Stable employment opportunities

Learning and development

Competitive benefits

Qualifications

• Compassionate and cheerful personality.
• Ability to handle challenging situations calmly.
• Energetic with a positive, can-do attitude.

Responsibilities

• Support people with personal care.
• Assist at meal times.
• Understand health and wellbeing needs.
• Encourage social activity participation.
• Promote dignity, independence, and respect.
• Maintain care records.

Skills

Caring

Communication

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Job description

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Church Walk care home in Rochdale. 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. And you can be proud to work for one of the country's leading providers. The number of our homes rated 'Good' and 'Outstanding' far exceeds the national average. About Exemplar Health Care Church Walk is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers. We support adults living with complex mental health needs, neuro-disabilities including Huntington's disease, 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.

We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers, giving you more time to spend with the people you support.

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.