Health Care Assistant

Castleford, WF10 2PY

Position: Health Care Assistant
Care home:  Kingfisher View 
Location: Castleford, WF10 2PY
Contract type: 42 hours per week, 12 hour shifts 
Rate: £13.81 per hour on completion of Care Certificate
Care home CQC rating: Good

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

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 

Kingfisher View is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs. 

The home has single and dual occupancy apartments that support 16 adults living with complex mental health needs, acquired brain injuries and dementia.

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: 

https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1029766837/

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’. 

For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email pod5@exemplarhc.com  

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 recruitment@exemplarhc.com.

About Exemplar
Health Care

We're one of the UK's leading providers of nursing care for adults living with complex needs, with more than 60 care homes across England. 

Everything we do is guided by our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, and teamwork.

This creates a supportive environment where colleagues can grow and make every day better for the people we support.

Getting to Kingfisher View

Kingfisher View, Wheldon Road, Ferry Fryston, Castleford, WF10 2PY

Kingfisher View is a short drive from the M1, A1(M), and other major roads including A656.

The home is based on a site with three other Exemplar Health Care homes.

When you arrive on the site, Kingfisher View is on the left.

There are limited parking spaces in the home’s car park.

The home’s a short walk from several bus stops.

  • Wheldon Road Fryston Road bus stop (stop ID: 45013341) which is accessed by bus 158
  • Wheldon Road Silkstone bus stop (stop ID: 45026339), which is accessed by bus 158.

There are no train stations within walking distance of the home. The nearest station is approximately a seven minute drive or 45 minute walk.

  • Castleford – 1.9 miles away.