Care Assistant

**Position**: Care Assistant

**Care home**: The Lodge
**Location**: Swallownest, S26 4WB
**Contract type**: Full time hours available
**Rate**: £10.42 up to £10.77 per hour (dependent on qualifications)
**Care home CQC rating**: Good

**Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Care Assistant at The Lodge learning disability service in Swallownest.**

As a 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.

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

**About Exemplar Health Care**

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

We support six adults with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities.

With this small group living, we provide a homely environment for the people we support.

With us, you’ll be mindful that you’re working in people’s home and understand that every day is led by what the people living at The Lodge want to do. Flexibility and adaptability is a must.

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 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 to achieve their personal **goals**:

- encouraging and supporting people to be in control of their **day to day lives**:

- enabling people to access their **hobbies and interests** and be part of their **local community**:

- supporting people with their **personal care**:

- assisting people at **meal times** by promoting choice and involvement in all aspects of meal preparation
- understanding individual **health and wellbeing** needs
- promoting choice, **dignity**, independence and respect
- completing and maintaining **care records**.

We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers, giving you more time to spend with the people you support.

Download our job description to read more:
**About you**
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.

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
- adaptable.

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 with fastP.A.Y.E
- 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’.

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.