Care Home Support
In a Care Home Support role with Exemplar Health Care, you'll have the chance to use your unique skills to make every day better for our residents.
In a Care Home Support role with Exemplar Health Care, you'll have the chance to use your unique skills to make every day better for our residents.
Working in our homes gives you a tremendous sense of achievement and pride – you’ll be making a real difference each and every day.
There are endless ways that you can make a difference, from maintenance to housekeeping, activities and catering.
Our homes have a range of support roles where you’ll become a valuable and appreciated part of the team.
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Catering roles
Mealtimes are an important part of our daily lives. In a catering role at Exemplar Health Care, you’ll work with our residents to develop nutritious menus and provide delicious meals and snacks throughout the day, catering for a range of dietary requirements. You can also get involved in our fun activities such as bake-off competitions and summer fayres.
| Cook | View roles |
| Kitchen Assistant | View roles |
| Kitchen Manager | View roles |
Housekeeping roles
It’s important that our homes are clean and tidy to keep people safe, and our Housekeepers play an important role in this. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that our homes are well presented and look welcoming to everyone who lives, works and visits there.
| Domestic Assistant | View roles |
| Housekeeping | View roles |
Maintenance roles
As a leading provider of specialist nursing care, we pride our homes on their quality. Our Maintenance Workers are responsible for making or arranging repairs around the home, and ensuring that the home is well presented and safe.
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Administration roles
Our Administrators are often the first people that our visitors or staff come to, to find out about various aspects of the home. You’ll play an important role in the running of the home, and be responsible for things such as answering the phone, raising purchase orders and processing invoices, supporting payroll and placing orders for the home.
As an Administrator, you could either work in one of our homes or in our Central Support Services.
| Administration (Receptionist) | View roles |
| Administration (Support Services) | View roles |
Activities roles
Each of our homes has a dedicated Activities Team that plans and organises one-to-one and group activities for our residents. You’ll work with each resident to identify their goals and interests, and develop an activities care plan to support them to develop their skills, take part in social activities, and continue to do the things that they enjoy.
In some of our homes that focus on rehabilitation, you might work as a Life Skills Facilitator to support people to build their everyday living skills and regain their independence.
| Activities Co-ordinator/Life Skills Co-ordinator | View roles |
Occupational therapy roles
Many of our homes have an on-site Occupational Therapist that supports our residents, who are adults living with complex needs, on their rehabilitation journey. You’ll work in a small team and build good working relationships with the people you support – so you’ll be able to watch them grow throughout their journey with us.
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Physiotherapy roles
Many of our homes have an on-site Physiotherapist that supports our residents, who are adults living with complex needs, on their rehabilitation journey.
You’ll be responsible for doing assessments and reviews, developing physiotherapy treatment programmes, liaising with the care team and other healthcare professionals, and monitoring people’s progress, to support them to regain their independence and build their everyday living skills.
| Physiotherapist | View roles |
All employees can access great savings from monthly discounts on high street shops and restaurants, pubs, holidays, and 2-for-1 cinema tickets.
You can park your car in provided spaces outside our homes, where available.
If you recommend a friend for a support worker role (such as in activities, maintenance, domestic and catering) you will both receive a payment of £150.
All employees receive free uniforms for the job, apart from employees in management and administrative roles.
Exemplar Health Care’s pension scheme is offered through the Government's auto-enrolment scheme which sees everyone aged between 22 and the state pension age automatically enrolled after their first three months on the job.
The scheme, NOW Pensions, sees colleagues have up to 5% of their earnings (depending on their salary) put into their pension. Exemplar contributes an additional 3%. This combined saving will go into your pension pot for when you reach retirement.
Each new starter has a DBS check paid for by Exemplar Health Care.
Exemplar Health Care offers various leadership programmes, and apprenticeships through the Government levy scheme. We also have a trainee nursing associate programme for carers who wish to progress in their care career.
All registered nurses with Exemplar get access to the RCNi training platform, which aims to improve the skills and knowledge of nurses and nursing. The platform contains more than 200 RCN-accredited clinical CPD learning modules.
All Exemplar colleagues can access immediate counselling services, free of charge. Our wellbeing partner, Care First, gives confidential, professional telephone counselling, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Colleagues can also access tips and guidance on wellbeing and occupational health on our staff mobile app, MyExemplar.
Before starting work, all new employees attend a four-day induction programme, which includes theory and practical sessions on health, safety, and Exemplar’s own procedures.
Exemplar reimburses nurses for the cost of renewing their Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration (NMC PIN) once they have been employed by the company for 12 months. Here’s a form to claim back your NCM PIN cost.
View claim formAll registered nurses with Exemplar get access to the RCNi training platform, which aims to improve the skills and knowledge of nurses and nursing. The platform contains more than 200 RCN-accredited clinical CPD learning modules.
Find out more£500 will be paid to the referrer when the referred nurse completes their three month induction and training period. £1,000 will be paid when the referred nurse completes a successful six month probation period. Here’s a form to claim your referral.
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