Healthcare Assistant

Elysium Healthcare Limited; Brighton; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Healthcare Assistant in Walton on the Naze. You will support individuals with learning disabilities and autism, providing essential care and assistance. Enjoy a fulfilling career with a supportive team, excellent training opportunities, and a range of benefits including a competitive salary and generous leave. This role requires compassion, resilience, and a positive attitude to make a real difference in the lives of those you care for.

Benefits

Annual salary of £25,155

33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)

Free meals and parking

Wellbeing support and activities

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Qualifications

• Experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK.
• Ability to provide care to people with learning disabilities and autism.

Responsibilities

• Join a supportive team providing care to individuals with learning disabilities.
• Conduct ward rounds, analyze behaviors, and update patient records.
• Assist with personal hygiene and overall care.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Job description

Introduction

Are you a naturally caring experienced Healthcare Assistant in the UK, looking for your career to be fulfilling, where you’re valued, recognised and supported?

If you want to make a positive difference to the lives of others and change lives for the better, then join the team at Asher Housein Walton on the Nazeas a Healthcare Assistantand experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

You’ll have access to a range of training and development options to help you achieve your career aspirations, while working as part of a supportive and friendly team in a culture built on kindness and teamwork.

What you will be doing

You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with learning disabilities and autismconditions, usingyour 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.

The shift pattern is 12.5 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including nights and weekends.

Where you will be working

Location:Asher House, Third Avenue, Walton On The Naze, CO14 8JU

Asher House consists of six bespoke, single-person apartments within a registered care setting with 24-hour nursing support.

It provides a robust environment and high-intensity care model which is designed to support people who have a Learning Disability & Autism with highly complex needs and behaviours. This includes service users who may be stepping down from the hospital or whose community placements have broken down.

What you will get

• Annual salary of £25,155
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

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 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.