Position: Senior Health Care Assistant
Care home: Adswood Lodge
Location: Stockport, SK3 8HZ
Contract type: 48 hours per week - days
Rate: £13.77 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.

About Exemplar Health Care
Adswood Lodge 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.

About the role
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
• leading, motivating and supporting a team of care colleagues
• ensuring that care documentation is completed to a high standard

About you
Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our 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, a great listener and communicator, comfortable working on your own initiative, and 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

• 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
Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’. For an informal chat, call 01977 630830 or email POD6@exemplarhc.com

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. We will never ask for payment for job opportunities.