Bank Healthcare Assistant

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

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a temporary Healthcare Assistant at Stanley House in Hereford. Enjoy flexible shifts and a competitive hourly rate while making a meaningful difference in residents' lives. Benefit from a paid induction, free meals, and ongoing support in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Free meals on duty

Free parking

Weekly pay

App access to book shifts

Mandatory training provided

Wellbeing support activities

Qualifications

• Previous experience in care roles essential.
• Positive attitude and the ability to work in challenging environments are important.
• Undertaking a two-week paid induction for training.

Responsibilities

• Support residents with personal care and daily activities.
• Assist with therapies and community engagement.
• Work in a multidisciplinary team to provide care for residents with neurological conditions.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Education

Experience as Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker or Care Worker

Job description

This is a temporary Healthcare Assistant role at Elysium Healthcare's Stanley House service in Hereford. The role offers flexible shifts and a competitive hourly rate with a 12.07% holiday allowance uplift. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team providing care and support to residents with neurological conditions, including personal care, assisting with daily activities, and supporting therapies and community engagement.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant on the bank, you'll have the freedom to choose which shifts you want to work each week, with weekday, night, and weekend shifts regularly available. You'll utilise your experience to support residents and enable them to lead a valued and fulfilled life, working as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role can be challenging at times, but it's highly rewarding to see people improve and make a real difference to their lives.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees. As part of the Ramsay Health Care global network, they operate over 90 services across England and Wales, covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, providing opportunities for growth and development.

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 Stanley House in Hereford, 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 nursing shifts at Stanley House secured 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 neurological conditions. 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 nursing 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

Location:Bosbury, Hereford, Herefordshire,HR8 1HB You will be working at Stanley House, a service which offers a multidisciplinary approach to its long term care provision and provides the specialised care and expert therapeutic interventions. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, you will support and enable residents to undergo reviews of their specific and/or changing needs. Stanley House offers therapies and activities which include Physiotherapy and Art therapy and receives input from a Professor in Neuropsychiatry and monthly specialist GP clinics.

Residents at Stanley House have varying needs, from being able to manage some of their own needs, to being fully reliant. This includes personal care involving washing, dressing, shaving and helping with continence needs. Helping residents to eat is also a big part of the daily routine.

End-of-life care is also provided to enable residents to stay in the comfort and familiar surroundings at Stanley House, where their family can also be supported.

There’s plenty of fun to be had too, through supporting residents to take part in regular communal activities, from providing wheelchair and walking assistance, to afternoons of laugher with bouncy castles, family fun days and trips to the local café, shops and bowling. Its these precious moments that are most rewarding and make it all worthwhile.

What you will get

• An hourly rate of up to £12.85 (plus a 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. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You'll need previous experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or Care Worker, with a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance. A two-week paid induction will ensure you're fully prepared to deliver great healthcare and make a difference.

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.