Health Care Assistant

About the role

Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Hamilton Springs care home in Pontefract. As a Health Care Assistant, you’ll support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives. This is an exciting opportunity to join a brand new team, in a state of the art, purpose built home.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Relevant experience and qualifications are not essential for this role.
• You’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.
• You’re caring, kind, understanding and calmable to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations.
• You’re energetic and outgoing, with a positive, can-do attitude.
• You’re a great listener and communicator.

Qualifications

No formal qualifications are required, but relevant experience is preferred.

Skills

• Caring
• Compassionate
• Cheerful
• Calm
• Positive
• Teamwork

Benefits

• Regular supervision
• Peer support
• Learning opportunities
• Career prospects
• Access to wages before payday
• Retail and lifestyle discounts
• Free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility

Pay

£13.71 per hour

Schedule

12 hour shifts, Days and Nights