Support Worker - days

Exemplar Health Care; Swallownest; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

supervision

access to wages before payday

retail and lifestyle discounts

DBS check (free)

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care’s The Lodge in Swallownest is seeking a Health Care Assistant (Support Worker) to help adults with complex needs live fulfilling lives. The role covers day shifts and involves supporting personal care, meal times, activities, and documenting care.

Training and induction are provided, with a focus on dignity, respect, and person-centred care. You’ll join a small, homely team at The Lodge, a home-like setting where every day is guided by residents’ wishes.

Qualifications

• Experience and qualifications aren’t essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Support adults with complex care needs to live their best lives.
• Encourage and support people to be in control of their day-to-day lives.
• Help people access hobbies and stay connected with their local community.
• Assist with personal care.
• Assist with meals, promoting choice and involvement in preparation.
• Understand individual health and wellbeing needs.
• Promote dignity, independence and respect.
• Complete and maintain care records.

Skills

Caring

Good listener

Communicator

Adaptable

Job description

Support Worker - days

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Position: Support Worker - days

Care home: The Lodge

Location: Swallownest, S26 4WB

Contract type: Permanent full time or part time days or nights

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.

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

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.

Please 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.