Health Care Assistant

Exemplar Health Care; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Sheffield seeks a compassionate Nights Health Care Assistant to support adults living with complex needs. Responsibilities include personal care, meal assistance, and promoting well-being through social activities. The ideal candidate is caring, energetic, and a great communicator. Benefits include training opportunities and flexible contracts. Join us to make a real difference each day.

Benefits

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Caring, kind, understanding, and calm personality.
• Ability to handle challenging situations effectively.
• Energetic, outgoing, and a team player.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with personal care.
• Assist people during meal times.
• Understand individual health and well-being needs.
• Encourage participation in social activities.
• Promote dignity, independence, and respect.
• Complete and maintain care records.

Skills

Caring

Listening

Communication

Positive attitude

Understanding

Calm under pressure

Job description

£12.71 per hour (£12.81 per hour on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)

Position: Nights Health Care Assistant

Care home: Willowbeck

Location: 95 Holywell Road, Sheffield, S4 8AR

Contract type: Days & Nights - Full and part time contracts available. Flexibility required

Rate: £12.71 per hour (£12.81 upon completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Willowbeck care home in Sheffield.

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.

About Exemplar Health Care

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

We support adults living with complex mental health needs, neurological conditions including brain injuries and strokes, and physical disabilities. The team is trained to support those living with tracheostomies and require ventilated care.

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
• 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
• completing and maintaining care records

Download our job description to read more:

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.

Qualities & Traits

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

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 [e-mail]>

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.

We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation. If you’re asked for money in connection with a role, please contact [e-mail].

Location & Transport

Willowbeck is a short drive from the M1 and other major roads including Meadowhall Road.

If you're travelling south on the M1, follow the M1 towards Sheffield and take exit 34.

If you're travelling north on the M1, follow the M1 towards Tinsley, Sheffield and take exit 34.

Willowbeck is situated on Holywell Road opposite Cosmopolitan Engineering.

There are limited parking spaces in the home’s car park. Street parking is available along Holywell Road.

Public transport to Willowbeck

The home is a short walk from a bus stop.

Holywell Road/Brathay Road bus stop (stop ID: 37020824), which is accessed by bus 137.

There's also a train station in the local area.

Meadowhall Interchange - 0.9 miles away (21 minute walk).