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Health Care Assistant

Job details
Posting date: 10 December 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £12.21 per hour (£12.31 per hour on completion of Exemplar care certificate)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 22 December 2025
Location: SR4 0HG
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Exemplar Health Care Services Limited
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 295217

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Summary

Position: Health Care Assistant
Care home: Hylton Grange
Location: 1 Poole Road, Sunderland, SR4 0HG
Contract type: Permanent full time or part time, various shifts available
Rate: £12.21 per hour (£12.31 per hour on completion of Exemplar care certificate)



Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant at Hylton Grange care home in Sunderland.

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

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

Hylton Grange supports 30 adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease across three units.

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 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.

Download our job description to read more:

https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1029766837/



About you

We value relevant experience and qualifications, and experience is 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.

Experience is essential, and 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 POD2@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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