Bank Healthcare Assistant

NHS; Thatcham; On-site; Full time

Job summary

An innovative healthcare provider is seeking flexible Bank Healthcare Assistants to join their team at a leading mental health facility. This role offers the unique opportunity to work on a zero-hour contract, allowing you to choose your shifts to fit your lifestyle. You will provide essential care and support to individuals with mental health challenges, making a significant impact on their recovery journey. With a focus on compassion and resilience, you will be part of a dedicated team that values the importance of personalized care. Enjoy benefits such as weekly pay, free meals, and comprehensive training as you embark on this rewarding career path.

Benefits

Weekly pay

Free meals

Free parking

Two-week paid induction

App access to book shifts

Mandatory training

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare support roles is essential.
• Candidates should demonstrate compassion, resilience, and a positive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for individuals with mental health conditions.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to support recovery.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Positive Attitude

Education

Experience as a Healthcare Assistant

Experience as a Support Worker

Experience as a Care Worker

Job description

This is a Bank Healthcare Assistant role at Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham, Berkshire, operated by Elysium Healthcare. The role involves providing care and support to individuals with a range of mental health conditions, working within a multidisciplinary team. The role offers flexibility with zero-hour contracts, allowing candidates to choose their own shifts, and a range of benefits including weekly pay, free meals and parking, and mandatory training.

Main duties of the job

As a Bank Healthcare Assistant, you will be joining a team that works together to provide care for people with a range of mental health conditions. Your experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker or Care Worker will be utilized to support individuals in leading a valued and fulfilled life. The role can be challenging at times, requiring a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance. However, it is highly rewarding to see people improve and regain their independence. You will be working in a 24/7 service with 12.5-hour shifts, giving you the freedom to choose the shifts that best fit your lifestyle.

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 Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham, 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 Thornford Park 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 a range of Mental Health 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.

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

You will be working at Thornford Park, a 130 bedded independent hospital which supports service users that require medium and low secure Forensic Mental Health Services. In addition to these services there is also a PICU Mental Health Service.

The service provides a seamless internal care pathway supporting and empowering people in their recovery and rehabilitation.

Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will provide personalised assessment and treatment programmes for males with mental illness/complex care needs as well as those with personality disorder, and females and males in a PICU service.

What you will get

• An hourly rate of up to £14.40 (inclusive 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker or Care Worker is required, as well as a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance.

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.