Senior Health Care Assistant
Position: Senior Health Care Assistant
Care home: Leger Grove
Location: Armthorpe Road, Intake, Doncaster, DN2 6AR
Contract type: Full and part time hours available
Rate: £12.00 per hour
If you’re an experienced Health Care Assistant looking to take your next career step, we have the role for you.
Our Senior Health Care Assistants work closely with our Nurse in Charge to lead a small Care Team in delivering high-quality care for the people we support.
Leger Grove care home is set to open in 2025, offering you a unique opportunity to be part of a brand-new team in a state-of-the-art, purpose-built home. This is your chance to truly make an impact!
About Exemplar Health Care
Leger Grove is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.
When open, Leger Grove will support adults living with acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia, and physical disabilities.
Although the home is set to open in [Month] 2025, you’ll begin a tailored induction one month prior. This will give you the opportunity to learn about the company, meet your colleagues, and complete your training, so you're fully prepared when the home officially opens.
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 Senior Health Care Assistants work closely with the Nurse in Charge and lead our Care Teams in supporting every aspect of our residents’ day-to-day lives.
No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
1. Supporting people with their personal care
2. Assisting people at meal times
3. Understanding individual health and wellbeing needs
4. Encouraging and supporting people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home
5. Promoting choice, dignity, independence, and respect
6. Leading, motivating, and supporting a team of care colleagues
7. Ensuring that care documentation is completed to a high standard.
We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers, giving you more time to spend with the people you support.
About you
Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, and teamwork.
You’re also:
1. Caring, kind, understanding, and calm
2. Able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations
3. Energetic and outgoing, with a positive, can-do attitude
4. A great listener and communicator, able to build trust and rapport with people
5. Comfortable working on your own initiative – but you know when to escalate
6. A motivating team leader.
To apply for this role, you must have relevant experience, a Level 3 qualification in Health and Social care, plus Maths and English at GCSE Grade C or above (or relevant functional skills qualification).
What we offer
We offer great rewards and perks including:
1. Regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities, and career prospects
2. Access to wages before payday with Wagestream
3. Retail and lifestyle discounts
4. Free DBS check
5. 24/7 counselling and support
6. Blue Light Card eligibility.
How to apply
Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.
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.
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