Health Care Assistant

Sunderland, SR4 0HG

Position: Health Care Assistant
Care home: Hylton Grange 
Location: 1 Poole Road, Sunderland, SR4 0HG
Contract type: Permanent – Full and part time contracts available. Full time: 8am to 8pm/8pm to 8am, 10am to 10pm. Part time: 6am to 11am, 6pm to 12am, 11am to 3pm
Rate: £12.71 per hour (£12.81 per hour on completion of Exemplar care certificate)

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

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 

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

Hylton Grange supports 30 adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease across three units. 

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 POD8@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 Hylton Grange

Hylton Grange, 1 Poole Road, Sunderland, SR4 0HG

Hylton Grange is a five minute drive from the A19.

On the A19, take the A183 exit towards Chester le Street / Sunderland.

  • If you’re travelling north on the A19, take the third exit on the roundabout onto Chester Road/A183.
  • If you’re travelling south on the A19, take the first exit on the roundabout onto Chester Road/A183.

At the first roundabout, take the first exit onto Hylton Road and go through another roundabout. Turn left onto St Luke’s Road. Then, turn right onto Fordfield Road.

Hylton Grange is on the corner of Poole Road and Fordfield Road, opposite Blackie Park.

There are limited parking spaces in the home’s car park. Street parking is available along Poole Road and Fordfield Road.

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

  • Fordfield Road-Polebrook Road bus stop, which is accessed by bus 10.
  • Fordfield Road bus stop, which is accessed by bus 10.

There’s also a train station in the area.

  • Sunderland – 2.6 miles away (10 minute drive).