Health Care Assistant

Spennymoor Source: WhatJobs

£12.71 per hour

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Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Tees Grange

Location: Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, TS20 2PH

Contract type: Permanent. Various contracts available

Rate: £12.71 per hour (£12.81 on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)

Are you an experienced, caring and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Tees Grange care home in Stockton-on-Tees.

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

Tees Grange 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.

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

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also…

experienced in a care role
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.

Experience is essential for this role, and we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

What we offer