Bank Healthcare Assistant

Elysium Healthcare; Lindley; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly rate up to £13.11

Weekly pay

Two-week induction

App access to book shifts

Free meals on duty

Free parking

Mandatory training

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Castleholme Lodge in Huddersfield is seeking Bank Healthcare Assistants to join the team on a zero-hour contract, offering flexible shifts across days, nights and weekends. After a paid two-week induction, you’ll access shifts via an app and benefit from an uplift to cover annual leave, plus free meals on duty and free parking.

The role supports adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties in a supportive, collaborative environment, with training and wellbeing resources to help you

Qualifications

• Compassionate bedside manner.
• Ability to remain calm in challenging situations.
• Commitment to safeguarding and patient dignity.

Responsibilities

• Assist adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties in a housing setting.
• Support individuals to lead a valued and fulfilled life through compassionate care.
• Collaborate with the team to provide safe, person-centred care 24/7.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Positive attitude

Job description

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 Castleholme Lodgein Huddersfield, 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 Castleholme Lodgesecured 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 foradults with severe and enduring mental health difficultiesconditions. 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

Location: Castleholme Lodge, 4 Bryan Road, Edgerton, Huddersfield, HD2 2AH

Castleholme Lodge is situated in Huddersfield with excellent transport links to the surrounding areas.

Castleholme Lodge is a mixed Gender 20 bed Care Home with nursing, providing a range of mental health services for adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. It is part of a cluster of Elysium Healthcare services across the Yorkshire and Midlands region that work closely together in support of each other.

What you will get

• An hourly rate of up to £13.11 (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:

Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 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