Health Care Assistants

Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Blackmoor care home in Birmingham. 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 Blackmoor Blackmoor is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers. We support adults living with complex mental health needs, brain injuries, physical disabilities and neuro-disabilities including Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease. 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 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 care 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.