Health care assistant

Position: Health Care Assistant

Care home: Tees Grange

Location: Norton, Stockton-on-Tees, TS20 2PH

Contract type: Permanent. Various contracts available

Rate: £12.71 per hour (£12.81 on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate)

About Exemplar Health Care

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

We support adults living with complex mental health needs 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

We Offer Great Rewards and Perks

• 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