Bank Healthcare Assistant - Preston - Lancashire

Brainkind; Preston; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee wellbeing support

Training and development

Company pension

Group life assurance

Eye voucher scheme

Free parking

Job summary

Brainkind is seeking a Bank Healthcare Assistant to join our Lancashire team in Preston, delivering compassionate neurological care and assisting with daily living activities and rehabilitation.

You will work as part of a supportive team, ensuring accurate reporting and safeguarding, while benefiting from training and employee wellbeing commitments. The role offers a competitive hourly rate and opportunities for career development.

Qualifications

• Proven experience of working within a team
• Care delivery experience
• Willing to provide personal care
• Good communication skills
• Numeracy and literacy skills
• IT skills including accessing and using the internet, email and word

Responsibilities

• Work with team to support cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional recovery.
• Carry out personal care duties under supervision.
• Monitor wellbeing and alert senior colleagues to changes.
• Ensure accurate reporting and documentation.
• Support service users to have their views considered in service delivery.
• Safeguard confidential information and handle service users' valuables.
• Maintain a safe working environment and assist with training as needed.

Skills

Teamwork

Care delivery

Personal care

Communication

Numeracy & literacy

IT skills

Tools

Microsoft Word

Email

Internet

Job description

Bank Healthcare Assistant - Lancashire

Pay Rate: £13.21 per hour with £1 extra on a Bank Holiday and Weekend

Location: Preston

BANK

Why join us?

If you are passionate about providing expert and compassionate care and looking to develop in your career as a Healthcare Assistant in the field of Neurological care, Brainkind has an amazing opportunity for you!

About the role:

• Working with other team members to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional recovery. Ensuring that rehabilitation goals, strategies and procedures are implemented and reinforced
• Carrying out personal care duties with close supervision and making judgements involving straightforward facts or situations
• Monitoring the physical and emotional well-­being of all clients in order to be aware of changes and to alert senior colleagues, as necessary. Assisting in maintaining morale of clients by communication and contact – achieved by talking and working with them
• Ensuring accurate reporting and documentation
• Reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the individuals’ experience. Challenging practice as appropriate and supporting junior and new staff
• Promoting choice in the delivery of care and support. Enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by the individual and/or their representatives.
• Supporting service users to have their views and experiences considered in the way the service is provided and delivered
• Having a personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources. This includes safeguarding, handling cash and service users’ valuables
• Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks
• For an insight in to what the role would entail please watch our video detailing a Day in the Life of one of our Support Workers at Brainkind: Working at Brainkind: A day in the life - Millie

About you:

• Proven experience of working within a team
• Care delivery experience
• Willing to provide personal care
• Good communication skills
• Numeracy and literacy skills
• IT skills including accessing and using the internet, email and word

Rewards

You can look forward to excellent benefits including:

• A competitive rate of £13.21 per hour with £1 extra on a Bank Holiday and Weekend
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Company Pension
• Group life assurance
• Eye voucher scheme
• Long service and staff awards
• Free parking

We also put a big focus on employee wellbeing and support. It matters to us that you feel at your best. Career development is a priority. We will ensure you get all the training and learning opportunities you need to achieve your goals.

*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks*

Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.