Bank Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care Group.; Castleford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Job description

Care home: Wheldale Heights
Location: Castleford, WF10 2PY
Contract type: Bank
Rate: £12.82 per hour

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Wheldale Heights care home in Castleford.

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

Wheldale Heights is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. We support adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities, including Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease.

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:

1. supporting people with their personal care
2. assisting people at meal times
3. understanding individual health and wellbeing needs
4. encouraging and supporting people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home
5. promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect
6. completing and maintaining care records.

We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers. There are usually up to six colleagues on each unit that supports around ten people, 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:

1. caring, kind, understanding and calm
2. able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations
3. energetic and outgoing, with a positive, can-do attitude
4. 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:

1. regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
2. access to wages before payday
3. retail and lifestyle discounts
4. free DBS check
5. 24/7 counselling and support
6. Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’. For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email [e-mail].

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.