Care Assistant

Position: Bank Care Assistant

Care home: Wheldale Heights
Location: Castleford, WF10 2PY
Contract type: Bank
Rate:£12.82 per hour

Recruiting for Care Assistants!

We are holding a Recruitment Open day on Wednesday 27th November at our Kingfisher View Care Home in Castleford Wheldon Road, WF10 2PY

You can pop in anytime during the day between 10am - 4pm.

Come along to our recruitment open day to learn more about our service users and chat to the team.

Applications available on the day. Please bring photo ID and proof of address with you.

We are unable to offer sponsorship at this event.

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

As a Health Care Assistant, youll support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives.

This role will give you a tremendous sense of achievement and pride youll be making a real difference each and every day.

And, you can be proud to work for one of the countrys leading providers. The number of our homes rated Good and Outstanding far exceeds the national average.

Wheldale Heights 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.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

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.

We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers. There are usually up to six colleagues on each unit that supports around ten people, giving you more time to spend with the people you support.

We value relevant experience and qualifications, but they arent essential for this role.

Above all, youre someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

Youre 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.

Youll put people at the heart of everything you do.

If you havent worked in the care sector before, well help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

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.

Sound good? Wed love to hear from you. Click the button to APPLY NOW.

Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. Were unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

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