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Healthcare Assistant

Integrated Care System

Gloucester

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GBP 26,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Join an established healthcare provider at the Dean Neurological Centre as a Healthcare Assistant, where you'll work in a supportive team to deliver compassionate care to patients with complex neurological conditions. Your role includes personal care, maintaining patient records, and contributing to a fulfilling recovery environment for individuals requiring specialized support. With competitive salary, training opportunities, and a culture of kindness, this role offers a chance to make a positive impact on the lives of others.

Benefits

33 days annual leave including bank holidays
Subsidised meals and parking
Career development and training
Pension contribution
Life Assurance
Enhanced Maternity Package

Qualifications

  • Experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is essential.
  • A caring and compassionate attitude is crucial.
  • Resilience and the ability to work in challenging environments are important.

Responsibilities

  • Providing compassionate and supportive care.
  • Assisting with personal hygiene and daily activities.
  • Updating patient records and analyzing behaviors.

Skills

Compassion
Resilience
Positive Attitude
Vigilance

Job description

This is a role as a Healthcare Assistant at the Dean Neurological Centre in Gloucester, which is part of Elysium Healthcare. The centre provides specialist 24-hour nursing and therapy services for people with complex long-term neurological conditions. The role involves providing compassionate and supportive care to help patients along their recovery pathway towards living a valued and fulfilled life.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will be part of an inclusive and supportive team that works together to provide care to people with complex neurological conditions. Your responsibilities will include unit handovers, analyzing behaviors and adapting care accordingly, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene. It can be a challenging environment, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important. However, it is highly rewarding to see people improve and know that you have made a positive difference in their lives.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is 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 an opportunity for growth and development within the organization.

Job responsibilities

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 atThe Dean Neurological Centre in Gloucesteras 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 complex neurologicalconditions, usingyour knowledge and skills to help people along their recover pathway towards leading a valued and fulfilled life.

Your day-to-day will include unit handovers, 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. 37.5 hours per week.

Job description
Job responsibilities

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 atThe Dean Neurological Centre in Gloucesteras 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 complex neurologicalconditions, usingyour knowledge and skills to help people along their recover pathway towards leading a valued and fulfilled life.

Your day-to-day will include unit handovers, 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. 37.5 hours per week.

Other responsibilities:
  • Assisting with daily living activities, e.g. feeding, showering and toilet assistance
  • Utilising equipment to move residents when necessary.
  • Adhering to cleanliness of the workplace and updating cleaning schedules daily.
  • Communicating with residents’ families and external visitors and colleagues.

Where you will be working

Location: The Dean Neurological Centre, Tewkesbury Road, Gloucester, GL2 9EE

The Dean Neurological Centre has 60 beds in Gloucester (GL2 9EE), which is on the outskirts of the town within easy commute from Gloucester, Cheltenham and surrounding areas.

The Centre delivers specialist 24-hour nursing and therapy services for people with complex long-term neurological conditions who require ongoing support and assistance to maximise functional ability. It specialises in rehabilitation, tracheostomy and ventilator care where the emphasis is placed on maximising individual abilities, comfort, living as independently as possible and with an improved quality of life.

Bedrooms are fitted with high dependency equipment, including ceiling track hoists, wall mounted suction and oxygen equipment., with all rooms adapted to individual requirements. There are also well-equipped therapy facilities and other facilities such as gardens, gym and minibus.

What you will get

  • Annual salary of £25,057
  • The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
  • Subsidised 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 are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and 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. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Person Specification
Qualifications
  • No specific qualifications are mentioned, but the job requires experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK and a caring, compassionate, and resilient attitude.
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.

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