Healthcare Assistant

Elysium Healthcare; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider in an inclusive environment where you'll provide care for individuals with mental health conditions. Your role at Castleholme Lodge in Huddersfield involves engaging with patients, updating records, and adapting care plans, all while receiving excellent support and benefits.

Benefits

33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)

Free meals and parking

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Retail discounts and special offers

Qualifications

• You must hold a full UK driving license.
• Ability to analyse behaviours and adapt care accordingly.
• Positive attitude essential in challenging environment.

Responsibilities

• Participate in ward rounds and provide overall care and support.
• Update patient records and assist with personal hygiene.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in a supportive team.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Job description

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You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with 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 12.5 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including nights and weekends. You must hold a full UK driving license as you may be required to drive the service vehicle as part of your job.

Where you will be working

Castleholme Lodge is situated in Huddersfield with excellent transport links to the surrounding areas. It is undergoing a complete refurbishment to ensure the best environment for service users and staff to thrive in.

Castleholme Lodge will be a 20-bed Care Home with nursing, providing a range of mental health services for adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. It will form part of a cluster of Elysium services across the Yorkshire and Midlands region that work closely together in support of each other.

What you will get

• Annual salary of £23,693
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including 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 are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers and much more.