Bank HCA

St Andrew's Healthcare; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

A charitable healthcare provider in Birmingham seeks a Bank Healthcare Assistant to support staff in delivering patient care and rehabilitation. Ideal candidates should have a qualification in healthcare, good literacy, numeracy, and observational skills. The role requires resilience, teamwork, and the ability to handle physical demands, including personal care tasks. Benefits include excellent annual leave, a pension plan, and access to health discounts.

Benefits

Pension

Sickness policy on par with NHS

Health Service Discounts

35 days annual leave

Life cover

Electric Car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Healthcare cash plan

Free parking

Paid DBS application

Access to free vocational qualifications

Qualifications

• Minimum physical capability to sit, stand, and kneel for prolonged periods.
• Experience in healthcare or care work is desirable.
• Ability to cope with the demands of an active post.

Responsibilities

• Support staff teams in delivering rehabilitation and care.
• Undertake personal care tasks such as washing and toileting.
• Work flexibly with all patient groups and adapt to ward environment changes.

Skills

Literacy skills

Numeracy skills

IT skills

Observational skills

Resilience

Teamwork

Initiative

Education

Qualification in healthcare

Job description

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We are St Andrew’s. We are a thriving charity, and our vision is a society in which everyone living with mental health need is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

We help people to overcome barriers, and we work tirelessly to help people in our care to find hope.

Are you full of curiosity and ideas? Are you inspired to do the right thing every day, living by our CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence?

Then come join us. Let’s transform lives together.

St Andrew’s Birmingham is a 118 bedded adult mental healthcare facility comprises of eight units that cover medium and low security for both Men and Women. Located in Stirchley, a vibrant area in South Birmingham, easily accessible by road networks and public transport.

The Role

Bank Healthcare Assistants work in our Clinical areas, supporting staff teams in delivering and focusing on our Patients and their rehabilitation, daily activities and care. The role can be quite active and we would therefore require you to be able to cope with the demands of an active post. To join St Andrew’s as a Healthcare Assistant we are looking for the following:

• Good standard of literacy, numeracy and IT skills
• Working within a mental healthcare setting will require resilience as it can be a challenging role
• Undertake personal care (washing, toileting, etc.)
• To be able to follow instructions and procedures
• To be able to work in a team but use your own initiative
• Observational skills
• Able to flexibly support all patients groups and adaptable to any changes in ward environment

Due to the physical requirements of this role and the support we provide to our service users, successful candidates must meet minimum requirements of physical capability, including an ability to sit, stand and kneel for a prolonged period of time as well as the ability to transition between kneeling, sitting and standing with ease.

• Experience within healthcare or care work
• A qualification in healthcare
• Experience working in a mental health setting

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 41 after 10 years' service; Life cover; Our newly launched Electric Car scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.