Position: Nights Health Care Assistant
Care home: Bennett Court
Location: South Elmsall, Pontefract, WF9 2TF
Contract type: Full-time, 42 hours per week, 12‑hour shifts, 8:00 pm – 8:00 am, including weekends
Rate: £13.31 per hour on completion of Care Certificate
Care home CQC rating: Good
Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Bennett Court care home in Pontefract.
As a Health Care Assistant, you’ll support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives.
Our Health Care Assistants support people to live their best lives, whatever that looks like to them.
Responsibilities
* 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
* Liaising with friends, relatives and other stakeholders and promoting the profile of the home
About you
* Caring, kind, understanding and calm
* Able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations
* Energetic and outgoing, with a positive, can‑do attitude
* Great listener and communicator
What we offer
* 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
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.
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