Health Care Assistant

Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 4HA

Position: Health Care Assistant Days and Nights
Care home: Scotia Heights 
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 4HA
Contract type: 42 or 48 Hours Per Week
Rate: £13.21 Per Hour
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 Scotia Heights care home in Stoke-on-Trent.

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

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

We support adults living with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro-disabilities 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, 6 months experience in a care setting is required 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 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 Scotia Heights

Scotia Heights, Scotia Road, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 4HA

Scotia Heights is a short drive from the M6 and other major roads including Barthomley Interchange and A500.

  • If you’re travelling south on the M6, at junction 16 take the A500 exit to Newcastle-under-Lyme/Stoke-on-Trent (North)/Crewe/Nantwich.
  • If you’re travelling north on the M6, at junction 15 take the A500 exit to Stoke-on-Trent/Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Scotia Heights is on Scotia Road, in between ASDA and Lidl.

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

The home is a short walk from several bus stops.

  • Dimensions bus stop (stop ID: stoajpwa), which is accessed by buses 3A and 3.
  • Evans Street bus stop (stop ID:stoajpwd) which is accessed by bus 3.

There are two train stations in the area.

  • Longport – 1.5 miles away (34 minute walk or four minute drive).
  • Trent Valley path – 3.4 miles away (eight minute drive).