Support Worker

Exemplar Health Care; Swallownest; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Wages before payday

Discounts

Free DBS check

Counselling

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care in Swallownest is seeking a Health Care Assistant for The Lodge learning disability service. You’ll support adults with complex needs to live their best lives and participate in activities in a home-like setting.

Day-to-day responsibilities include helping residents achieve goals, promoting independence, assisting with personal care, meals and community involvement, while upholding dignity and respect. Training is provided.

Qualifications

• We value relevant experience, but qualifications aren’t essential for this role.
• You’re caring, kind, understanding and calm, with a positive, can-do attitude.

Responsibilities

• supporting people to achieve their personal goals
• encouraging people to be in control of their day-to-day lives
• enabling people to access hobbies and be part of their local community
• supporting people with their personal care
• assisting with meals and promoting choice
• understanding health and wellbeing needs
• promoting dignity, independence and respect
• completing and maintaining care records

Skills

Caring

Communication

Calm demeanor

Energy

Job description

Position: Support Worker – days
Care home: The Lodge
Location: Swallownest, S26 4WB
Contract type: 1 x 36 hour contract & 1 x 42 hour contract
Rate: £12.71 per hour (£12.81 on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)
Care home CQC rating: Rated ‘Good’ by CQC

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at The Lodge learning disability service in Swallownest.

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

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

We support six adults with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities.

With this small group living, we provide a homely environment for the people we support.

With us, you’ll be mindful that you’re working in people’s home and understand that every day is led by what the people living at The Lodge want to do. Flexibility and adaptability is a must.

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 to achieve their personal goals
• encouraging and supporting people to be in control of their day to day lives
• enabling people to access their hobbies and interests and be part of their local community
• supporting people with their personal care
• assisting people at meal times by promoting choice and involvement in all aspects of meal preparation
• understanding individual health and wellbeing needs
• 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

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
• adaptable.

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

• 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.