Healthcare Assistant

About The Role

PLEASE NOTE – We are NOT offering Sponsorship and are unable to take overseas applications at this time.

Cornerstone Healthcare is looking for an experienced, passionate and confident Care Assistant to join our award-winning team at The Burren. The Burren is a brand-new, purpose‑built service location in South Bristol, providing high‑quality care and supporting residents with varying complex neurological, mental health, and dementia care needs in a comfortable and safe living environment.

Our approach focuses on individualised care, considering the whole person’s unique strengths and challenges, rather than just the diagnosis.

Due to the specific needs of our male residents who require same‑sex personal care, this position is open to male applicants only under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1 (Occupational Requirement).

• Minimum of 1 year’s experience working in Care within the UK (essential)
• Experience working with adults that present with complex needs, including challenging behaviours and mental health needs
• Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues, residents, and their families
• A caring and empathetic approach to residents and their visitors
• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)

Total hours per week: 38.5 (12 hour shifts)

Day or Night Shifts, Weekend work required.

Supporting all aspects of daily living, including personal care, mealtimes, and social activities.

• Observe resident progress against planned goals and report changes in the residents’ condition or care needs
• Help residents remain as independent as possible
• Respect residents’ right of choice, privacy and dignity at all times
• Communicate effectively with other staff and members of the team

• Subsidised lunch available daily
• Free uniform laundered for you on site, ready for your next shift
• Monthly overtime raffle – receive a ticket for each overtime shift completed and the winner will receive an additional £200 in their pay packet
• Enhanced pay rates for overtime and bank holidays
• Opportunities to be enrolled onto a government‑funded RQF Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care
• Pension scheme
• Enhanced DBS fully covered by us and automatically added to the update service
• Specialist training beyond the mandatory training requirements
• Paid for e‑learning training
• Reward and recognition through vouchers and cash incentives for Christmas and long service
• Refer a friend scheme – up to £1,000
• Paid for company events
• Cycle to work scheme
• Healthcare cash plan worth up to £700
  * including dentistry, optical plus access to a 24/7 employee assistance programme offering psychological support to staff to avoid stress and burn‑out, meaning everyone can focus on caring for our residents
• Access to Blue Light card – over 13,000 discounts
• We are a Living Wage employer!

* subject to terms and conditions

Cornerstone Healthcare Group are a multi‑award-winning, sector leader with an innovative approach to complex care.

Cornerstone specialises in supporting adults of all ages with complex neurological, physical, and mental health needs. Residents typically live with neurological degenerative conditions, such as dementia with an underlying mental health condition, and are vulnerable and at times prone to challenging behaviours associated with complex conditions. Many have been unable to stay in other settings because their needs have been deemed too high or too challenging.

Operating well‑established homes in Waterlooville and Curdridge in Hampshire and Mytchett in Surrey, as well as a new state‑of‑the‑art ‘eco’ home in Bristol, the Group has built a reputation for delivering consistently high standards of care, focusing on the individual journey of each resident.

At Cornerstone, the expert clinical care skills and approach of the team mean that people with the most complex needs can find a place to call home.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all applications will be considered without regard to gender, race, disability, or any other protected characteristic. The male‑only exception is a genuine occupational requirement as noted above.