Support Worker - weekends only (suitable for students)

Exemplar Health Care; Skegby; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular supervision

Peer support

Learning opportunities

Career prospects

Early wage access

Discounts

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Health Care Assistant for Pathways care home in Sutton-in-Ashfield. You will support adults with complex care needs, helping with personal care, meals, and daily activities.

No two days are the same, and you’ll contribute to a warm, respectful environment while building your skills through induction and ongoing training.

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications required, relevant experience welcomed.

Responsibilities

• support people with their personal care
• assist people at meal times
• understand individual health and wellbeing needs
• encourage and support people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home
• promote choice, dignity, independence and respect
• complete and maintain care records

Skills

Caring

Communication

Calm

Empathy

Job description

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Pathways

Location: Kingfisher Way, Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4BR

Contract type: Weekends only Saturday and Sunday flexible for days and nights (suitable for students)

Rate: £13.21 per hour (£13.31 upon 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 Pathways care home in Sutton-in-Ashfield.

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

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

We support adults living with a learning disability and/or autism.

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.

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.

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.