Care Assistant

Position: Care Assistant
Care home: Lonnen Grove
Location: Kimberworth, Rotherham
Contract type: Full time and part time positions available
Rate: £11.44
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 Care Assistant at Lonnen Grove learning disability service in Rotherham.

As a Care Assistant, you’ll support people 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

Lonnen Grove is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.

We support six adults living with a learning disability and/or autism spectrum disorder.

Daily life at Lonnen Grove is all about choice. Everything we do is personalised to the individuals we support.

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 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 to take part in social activities, both in and out of the home
• encouraging people to maximise their independence and build everyday living skills
• supporting people to access the local community
• assisting people with their personal hygiene
• assisting people at meal times, including with cooking
• understanding individual health and wellbeing needs
• 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, 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 the care sector 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 with fastP.A.Y.E
• 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 pod7@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.