Health Care Assistant
23 days ago
Liverpool
Health Care Assistant\n\nWhen registering to this job board you will be redirected to the online application form. Please ensure that this is completed in full in order that your application can be reviewed.\n\nPosition: Health Care Assistant\n\nCare home: Kavanagh Place\nLocation: Kirkdale, Liverpool\nContract type: Full time and part time hours - 12 hour shifts\nRate: £12.81 (on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)\nCare home CQC rating: Good\n\nAre you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Kavanagh Place care home in Liverpool.\n\nAs a Health Care Assistant, you’ll support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives.\n\nThis role will give you a tremendous sense of achievement and pride – you’ll be making a real difference each and every day.\n\nAbout Exemplar Health Care\n\nKavanagh Place is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.\n\nWe support adults living with complex mental health needs, complex dementia and physical disabilities. The home's Abbey Unit is exclusively for people who identify as male.\n\nAs well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.\n\nAbout the role\n\nOur Health Care Assistants support people to live their best lives, whatever that looks like to them.\n\nNo two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:\n\n * supporting people with their personal care\n\n * assisting people at meal times\n\n * understanding individual health and wellbeing needs\n\n * encouraging and supporting people to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home\n\n * promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect\n\n * completing and maintaining care records.\n\nAbout you\n\nWe value relevant experience and qualifications, but they aren’t essential for this role.\n\nAbove all, you’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.\n\nYou’re also…\n\n * caring, kind, understanding and calm\n\n * able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations\n\n * energetic and outgoing, with a positive, can-do attitude\n\n * a great listener and communicator.\n\nYou’ll put people at the heart of everything you do.\n\nIf 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.\n\nWhat we offer\n\nWe offer great rewards and perks including:\n\n * regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects\n\n * access to wages before payday\n\n * retail and lifestyle discounts\n\n * free DBS check\n\n * 24/7 counselling and support\n\n * Blue Light Card eligibility.\n\nHow to apply\n\nSound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW