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Position: Health Care Assistant Care home: Hylton Grange Location: 1 Poole Road, Sunderland, SR4 0HG Contract type: Nights only 8pm to 8am shifts. 24, 36, 42 or 48 hours per week Rate: £12.21 per hour (£12.31 on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)

Are you an experienced, caring 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.

And, you can be proud to work for one of the country’s leading providers. The number of our homes rated ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’ far exceeds the national average.

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.

We have higher-than-average staffing levels when compared to other care providers. There are usually up to six colleagues on each unit that supports around ten people, giving you more time to spend with the people you support.

About you

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also…

* experienced, with more than 6 months previous experience in a care role

* 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.

Experience is essential for this role, and 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’.

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