Senior Health Care Assistant - Nights

Care home: Lakeview

Location: Leigh, Wigan

Contract type: Full time – 42 hours per week, nights only

Rate: £13.27 per hour

Lakeview is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high‑acuity needs. We support adults with complex mental health needs, dementia, neuro‑disabilities, including Huntington’s disease, and physical disabilities.

Our Senior Health Care Assistants work closely with the Nurse in Charge and lead a small Care Team in delivering high‑quality care for the people we support. No two days will be the same, but your day‑to‑day responsibilities 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
• Leading, motivating and supporting a team of care colleagues
• Ensuring that care documentation is completed to a high standard

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

To apply for this role you must have:

• Relevant experience as a Health Care Assistant
• A Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care
• Maths and English at GCSE Grade C or above (or a relevant functional skills qualification)

• 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, able to build trust and rapport with people
• Comfortable working on your own initiative – but knows when to escalate
• A motivating team leader