Healthcare Assistant

NHS; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Grimsby is looking for a compassionate Healthcare Assistant to support individuals with mental health conditions. You will join a multidisciplinary team, provide essential care, and have access to training and development opportunities. The role offers an annual salary of £26,728 along with 33 days annual leave and various benefits that promote work-life balance.

Benefits

Free parking

Wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Pension contribution

Enhanced Maternity Package

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is preferred.
• Compassion, resilience, and a positive attitude are important qualities.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and support to individuals with mental health conditions.
• Assist with personal hygiene and updating patient records.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Positive attitude

Vigilance

Job description

This is a Healthcare Assistant role at Elysium Healthcare's Bradley Complex Care facility in Grimsby, UK. The role involves providing care and support to individuals with a range of mental health conditions, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to help them on their recovery pathway. The successful candidate will have access to training and development opportunities, and the role offers a range of benefits including an annual salary of £26,728.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant at Bradley Complex Care in Grimsby, you will join an inclusive and supportive team that works together to provide care to people with a range of mental health conditions. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include ward rounds, analyzing behaviors and adapting care accordingly, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene. The role can be challenging at times, but it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of your involvement, knowing 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 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 at Bradley Complex Care in Grimsby as a Healthcare Assistant and 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 a range of mental health conditions, using your knowledge and skills to help people along their recovery 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 11.42 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including days, nights and weekends on rota basis, 40 hours per week.

Where you will be working:

Location: Bradley Road, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, DN37 0AA

You will work at a specialist service for men and women living with complex needs who may have a primary diagnosis of Learning Disability, Mental Health issue or Personality Disorder.

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to support people who display behaviours of concern and pose challenges for services, including those with highly complex and severe challenging behaviour.

Bradley Complex Care is located in Bradley, Grimsby, and North East Lincolnshire. The location provides a more relaxed local environment than a busy inner-city setting, which supports service users engaging in their therapeutic programme, thus increasing the pace of recovery and speeding up discharge.

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £26,728
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is preferred. A positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important qualities for this role.

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.