Health Care Assistant

Bishop Auckland, DL14 6RG

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Laurel Place 
Location: Tindale Crescent, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6RG
Contract type: Permanent – full time or part time 12 hour shifts: 8am to 8pm and 8pm to 8am
Rate: £14.21 per hour (increasing to £14.31 per hour on completion of Exemplar care certificate)

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as a Health Care Assistant at Laurel Place care home in Bishop Auckland.

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

About Exemplar Health Care 

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

Laurel Place supports adults living with complex needs, such as acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia 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.

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 POD2@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 Laurel Place

Laurel Place, Gudmunsen Avenue, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6RG

Laurel Place is is connected by major roads including the A68, A688, A689, and A6072.

The home is on the corner of Greenfields Road, Watling Road, and Gudmunsen Avenue.

There are limited parking spaces in the home’s car park. Street parking is available on Watling Road and Gudmunsen Avenue.

The home is a short walk from several bus stops.

  • Club – Watling Road bus stop, which is accessed by buses 1 Sapphire, 6 Sapphire, 9, 56, 85, and X21 X-lines.
  • Hospital bus stop, which is accessed by bus 9.

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

  • Bishop Auckland – 1.7 miles away (30 minute walk).