About the Role:
Your role will involve supporting people with all aspects of their day-to-day living, which may include taking up new hobbies, meeting friends, getting involved in social activities, going to the gym or looking their best!
Your day-to-day duties will include:
1. Providing personal care such as washing, personal hygiene, dressing and on occasion, assisting with meal times
2. Promote independence, dignity, respect and choice across service users
3. Support social and recreational activities; both in and out the home individually, or as part of a group
4. Maintain care records; recording observations, activities and assessments
5. On occasion, welcome and train new members of your care team
About You:
As a Care Assistant, you’ll provide person-centred care to support our service users to maximise their independence and live their best life.
6. You must have experience working within Mental Health
7. You will provide warmth, enthusiasm and compassion when providing care
8. As with all our employees, you will be expected to work within our staff values and use these at all times by being an effective communicator and being passionate about your work
9. Most importantly you are motivated by helping every individual, whether colleague or service user, to realise their full potential and be treated with dignity and respect
About Your Career:
At Exemplar Health Care, we’re committed to investing in our colleagues. We recognise talent and promote from within.
As a Care Assistant, there are lots of opportunities to do continuing professional development and progress in your career if you wish.
We offer a range of in-house and external training programmes, including:
10. A bespoke induction including the Care Certificate
11. Mandatory and statutory training (MAST) to refresh your skills
12. ABC of Caring training programme
As a Care Assistant, you can progress into a range of roles including:
13. Senior Health Care Assistant
14. Central Services role
About Your Benefits*:
15. Paid DBS check
16. Lifestyle and retail discounts at over high street retailers via our ELMS portal
17. Award winning 24/7 employee counselling and support service
18. Exceptional development opportunities including CPD Certificated programmes
19. FastPAYE – access your wage for additional hours worked before payday
20. Blue Light Card access
21. Company Shop membership
22. Free uniform
About Our Values:
At Exemplar Health Care, our FIRST values underpin everything that we do and ensure that we continue to make every day better for our residents and colleagues; our values are:
- Fun
- Integrity
- Responsiveness
- Success
- Teamwork
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:
At Exemplar Health Care you will work in an inclusive environment in which we champion diversity. We understand the importance of our workforce representing the communities and populations we serve. We provide a work place where you are encouraged to be yourself whilst offering our colleagues and our service users support, care and a place of belonging.