Health Care Assistant - days

Birmingham, B14 6QX

Position: Health Care Assistant
Care home: Otterburn
Location: Brandwood Park Road, Birmingham, B14 6QX
Contract type: Full Time 36 Hours Days 
Rate: £12.71 per hour (£12.81 upon completion of Exemplar care certificate)
Care home CQC rating: Rated ‘Good’ by CQC

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

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

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

We support adults living with dementia, complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’s disease and strokes. 

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 qualifications 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. 

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 pod4@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 Otterburn

Otterburn, Brandwood Park Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 6QX

Otterburn is a short drive from the A38 and A435.

From the centre of Birmingham:

  • Head towards the A441 and take it past Edgbaston Stadium.
  • From the south, follow the M40, M42, and A435 to Broad Lane.
  • Continue on Broad Lane to Brandwood Park Road and Otterburn is on the right.

There are limited parking spaces in the home’s car park. Street parking is available along Brandwood Park Road.

The home is a short walk from several bus stops.

  • Yarningdale Road bus stop in both directions (stop IDs: nwmgmdag and nwmgmdad), which are accessed by bus 35.
  • Doversley Road bus stop (stop ID: 43000409802), which is accessed by bus 46.

There’s also a train station in the local area.

  • Bournville – 2.2 miles away (30 minute walk).
  • Kings Norton – 2.2 miles away (11 minute drive).