Health Care Assistant

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Shire Oaks Court

Location: 6 Brownhills Road, Walsall Wood, Walsall, WS8 7BP

Contract type: Full time, 36, 42, 48 hours per week

Rate: £12.71 per hour

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Shire Oaks Court care home in Walsall.

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

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

We support adults living with dementia, complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’s disease and strokes.

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.

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.
• You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do.
• If you haven't worked in care 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.

### 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 [email protected].

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.

We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation. If you’re asked for money in connection with a role, please contact [email protected].