Health Care Assistant
Exemplar Health Care
Fryston, CastlefordView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£28,724
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time
Closing date
Not specified
Job description
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Position: Care Assistant
Care home: Wheldale Heights
Location: Castleford, WF10 2PY
Contract type: Part time, 4, 6 or 12 hours shifts, nights and days
Rate: £13.81 per hour on completion of care certificate
Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Wheldale Heights care home in Castleford.
As a Health Care Assistant, youll support adults living with complex care needs to live their best lives.
This role will give you a tremendous sense of achievement and pride youll be making a real difference each and every day.
Wheldale Heights 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.
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 arent essential for this role.
Above all, youre someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.
Youre 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.
Youll put people at the heart of everything you do.
If you havent worked in the care sector before, well help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.
- 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.
Sound good? Wed love to hear from you. Click the button to APPLY NOW.
Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. Were unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation.
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Adzuna
First seen
20 September 2026
Last checked
20 September 2026
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