Female Support Worker

Elysium Healthcare; Limpsfield; On-site; GBP 21,474 - 26,246; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual salary 23860.20 GBP

33 days annual leave

Career development

Ely-Vate rewards

Wellbeing support

Blue Light Card

Life Assurance

Wages on demand (Stream)

24/7 GP service

Enhanced Maternity Package

Pension

Free meals & onsite parking

Job summary

Elysium Healthcare is seeking a dedicated Support Worker at Ormesby House, West Hill, Oxted, Surrey. You will help people with Mental Health conditions live safer, more fulfilling lives, applying your knowledge and kindness in everyday care.

This permanent, full-time role is 35 hours per week with shifts from 7am to 10pm, including weekends. You will work in a supportive team with training and development opportunities and access to our wellbeing and benefits platform Ely-Vate.

Qualifications

• Caring nature with ability to support people with Mental Health conditions.
• Willingness to work in a challenging but rewarding healthcare environment.
• Ability to participate in ward rounds and update patient records.

Responsibilities

• You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with Mental Health conditions.
• Your day-to-day will include ward rounds, analysing behaviours and adapting care, updating patient records, and assisting with personal hygiene.
• It is a permanent, 35 hours a week, full-time contract with shifts between 7am and 10pm, including weekends on rota.

Job description

Be part of making lives better as a Support Worker at Ormesby House in West Hill, Oxted, Surrey, and experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

Use your knowledge, experience, and caring nature to make a positive difference to the lives of people with Mental Health conditions.

You’ll be looked after, with a fulfilling career where you’re valued, recognised, and supported, with colleagues there for you and a culture built on kindness and teamwork.

There’s also a range of training and development options available to help you achieve your career aspirations, allowing you to grow and succeed as a Support Worker and beyond.

What You Will Be Doing

You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with a range of Mental Health conditions, using your knowledge and skills to help people along their recover pathway towards leading a valued and fulfilled life.

Your day-to-day will include ward rounds, analysing behaviours and adapting care accordingly with colleagues, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene.

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 because of your involvement, knowing that you’ve made someone’s life better.

This is a permanent, 35 hours a week, full-time contract. Will be working on shifts, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, including weekends on rota.

Where You Will Be Working

Location: Ormesby House, West Hill, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 9JB

Ormesby House provides a specialist residential service for all gender identities who have a learning disability, or who are autistic, and have behaviours which, due to their diagnosis may be of concern/distress. Residents may also have profound and multiple communication difficulties, sensory impairments and physical health problems. As well as supporting individuals who have a learning disability, who are autistic, we are specialists in working with additional complex needs.

The service is staffed 24 hours a day by a dedicated team of Support Workers, led by an experienced Registered Manager.

What You’ll Get

• Annual base salary of £23,860.20
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals
• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts
• Life Assurance, for added peace of mind
• Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be
• Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time
• Pension contribution, to help secure your future
• Free/subsidised meals and onsite/local free parking

About Us

Elysium Healthcare 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.