Position: Health Care Assistant
Care home: Parkside 
Location: Tipton, DY4 9HJ
Contract type: Permanent Full Time, 36 hours - Days
Rate: £11.44 up to £11.79 per hour depending on qualifications
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 Parkside care home in Tipton.

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.

And you can be proud to work for one of the country’s leading providers. The number of our homes rated ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’ far exceeds the national average.

About Exemplar Health Care 

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

We support adults living with complex mental illness, physical disabilities and neuro-disabilities including brain injuries. 

We’re proud to have a long-standing team at all levels. In our last colleague survey, 96% of colleagues said they feel they make a difference in their work here, and 96% said they can access training to support them in their role. 

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, promoting choice and respecting preferences

• understanding individual health and wellbeing needs

• encouraging and supporting people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home, based on their personal interests and hobbies

• promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect

• completing and maintaining care records .

We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers, giving you more time to spend with the people you support.

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

• reliable and accountable.

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.

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 pod4@exemplarhc.com. 

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.