Bank Healthcare Assistant

NHS; Kendal; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An opportunity to join Elysium Healthcare as a Bank Healthcare Assistant in Kendal, providing essential support to individuals with learning disabilities and autism. This role is flexible, with competitive pay and benefits like free meals and parking. You will utilize your healthcare experience to make a difference in the lives of the people you support.

Benefits

Free meals and parking

Weekly pay

Two-week paid induction

App access to book shifts

Qualifications

• Previous experience supporting people with complex needs.
• Demonstrated compassionate approach in healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and support to individuals with learning disabilities and autism.
• Flexibly choose shifts that fit personal lifestyle while ensuring quality care.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Education

Experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or Care Worker

Job description

This is a temporary healthcare assistant role at Elysium Healthcare's Ann House facility in Kendal, Cumbria. The role involves providing care and support to people with learning disabilities and autism, with a focus on helping them lead fulfilling lives. The job offers flexibility, competitive pay, and a range of benefits, including free meals and parking.

Main duties of the job

As a Bank Healthcare Assistant at Ann House, you will join a team that works together to provide care and support for people with learning disabilities and autism. Your experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or Care Worker will be crucial in helping residents improve and lead more independent, meaningful lives. The role can be challenging at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important. However, it is highly rewarding to see the progress and development of the people you support. You will have the freedom to choose your own shifts, with weekday, night, and weekend shifts regularly available.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to care delivery. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering mental health, neurological, learning disabilities and autism, children and education, there are opportunities for growth and movement within the organization. Elysium Healthcare is part of the global Ramsay Health Care network, which employs over 86,000 people worldwide.

Job responsibilities

Are you an experienced Healthcare Assistant or Support Worker wanting control and flexibility to work the shifts you want?

Whether you’re looking for extra shifts to boost your income or a flexible job that fits around your lifestyle, if you’re an experienced Healthcare Assistant in the UK you can join our staff bank and, after completing a paid two-week induction, you’ll have access to available shifts at Ann HouseinKendall, plus the potential future option to work bank shifts regionally at other Elysium services across the region.

There is no minimum number of hours that you need to work, although it is recommended to work as often as you can to ensure your induction knowledge and familiarity with the service is retained.

Weekdays, nights and weekend shifts are regularly available, which are easy to view and book through an app. Within a few taps you’ll have the shifts at Ann Housesecured that you want.

Whether your nursing experience is from the NHS or private sector, you can join the team as a Bank Healthcare Assistant with an hourly rate that includes a 12.07% uplift to cover annual leave, plus have access to a range of benefits including free meals on duty, free parking and more.

What you will be doing

You will join the team that works well together to provide care for people with Learning Disabilities and Autism. Whether you are currently a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker or Care Worker, you will utilise your experience to support people to lead a valued and fulfilled life.

It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week because of you.

With Elysium, you’ll get to experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like as you make a real difference to some of the most vulnerable people in society, with plenty to keep you engaged and motivated as you’re rewarded and enjoy a fulfilling role.

The service operates 24/7 with 12.5 hour standard shifts. As a Healthcare Assistant on our bank you’ll be on a zero hour contract, giving you the freedom to choose which shifts you want to work each week.

Where you will be working

Ann House provides a specialist provision with enhanced levels of support which allows people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs to be cared for in the least restrictive setting possible, but within a service which is robust and structured enough to meet their ongoing needs and risks. The service ensures people lead good and meaningful everyday lives, where they have choice and control, accessing mainstream services and facilities, engaging in work and training, in leisure opportunities, hobbies and areas of personal interest. Ann House encourages people to be as independent as possible with the long-term aim of people moving onto a more independent living setting.

What you will get

• An hourly rate of up to £13.50(inc of 12.07% Holiday Allowance Uplift)
• Weekly pay!
• Two-week paid induction
• App access to book shifts easily and quickly
• Free meals and parking
• Mandatory training to ensure you are fully able to do your job at the best of your ability.
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You should have previous experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or Care Worker, and be able to demonstrate a compassionate and resilient approach to supporting people with complex needs.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.