Care Assistant

**Position**: Health Care Assistant - DAYS

**Care home**: Woolston House
**Location**: Woolston, Warrington
**Contract type**: Full and part time hours available
**Rate**: £12.81 (on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)

**_ We are holding a Recruitment Open day on Wednesday 20th August at our Woolston House Care Home in Warrington - Woolston House, Long Barn Lane, Woolston, Warrington, WA1 4QB; You can pop in during the day between 10am - 7pm. _**
**_Recruiting for Care Assistants
- Days and Nurses _**
**_Come along to our recruitment open day to take a tour of the home, meet our service users and chat to the team. _**
**_Applications available on the day. Experience in care preferred. Please bring photo ID and proof of address with you. _**
**_We cannot 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 Woolston House care home in Warrington.**

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

This is an exciting opportunity to join a brand new team, in a state of the art home. You’ll have the chance to really make your mark.

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**:
Woolston House is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.

We support adults living with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities including brain injuries and strokes, Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease, and physical disabilities.

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**.

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

**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.

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’.

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.