Health Care Assistant

Telford, TF7 5FQ

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Woodside Place 
Location: Woodside Avenue, Telford, TF7 5FQ
Contract type: Various hours – Full time : 8am – 8pm (24 Hours – 48 Hours Per Week) and Part Time  : 6am – 1pm (21 Hours Per Week )
Rate: £12.71 Per Hour increasing to £12.81 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 Woodside Place care home in Telford.

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

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team, in a state of the art, purpose built home. You’ll have the chance to really make your mark.

About Exemplar Health Care 

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

We support adults living with complex needs arising from brain injuries, dementia, mental health conditions and neuro-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 pod9@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 Woodside Place

Woodside Place, Woodside Avenue, Telford, TF7 5FQ

Woodside Place is a short drive from junction 4 of the M54 and other major roads including the A464 and A442/Brockton Way.

The home is on Woodside Avenue, close to the junction with the B4373/Castlefields Way.

There are limited parking spaces in the home’s car park. Street parking is available around the home.

The home is a short walk from several bus stops.

  • Willowfield bus stop in both directions (stop IDs: telagdjw and telagdjt), which are accessed by buses 1, 2, 4, 100, and X10.
  • Madeley Academy bus stop (stop ID: telagdma), which is accessed by buses 8 and 8A.
  • Woodside Madeley Academy bus stop (stop ID: telagdmj), which is accessed by buses 1, 4, 8, 8A, 100, 101, and X10.

The nearest train station is Telford Central around four miles away (7 minute drive).