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Posting date: 20 November 2025
Salary: £12.31 per hour
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 20 December 2025
Location: S26 4WB
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Exemplar Health Care Services Limited
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 296362JCQA

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Summary

Position: Health Care Assistant Nights
Care home: The Lodge
Location: Swallownest, S26 4WB
Contract type: Part Time 24 hours - Nights
Rate: £12.31 on completion of Exemplar Care Certificate
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 Health Care Assistant at The Lodge learning disability service in Swallownest.

As a Health Care Assistant, you’ll support adults living with complex care needs 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.





About Exemplar Health Care

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

We support six adults with severe or profound and multiple learning disabilities.

With this small group living, we provide a homely environment for the people we support.

With us, you’ll be mindful that you’re working in people’s home and understand that every day is led by what the people living at The Lodge want to do. Flexibility and adaptability is a must.

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.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

supporting people to achieve their personal goals

encouraging and supporting people to be in control of their day to day lives

enabling people to access their hobbies and interests and be part of their local community

supporting people with their personal care

assisting people at meal times by promoting choice and involvement in all aspects of meal preparation

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

adaptable.

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

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.

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