Healthcare Assistant

Elysium Healthcare; Kendal; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a compassionate Healthcare Assistant to join their supportive team in Kendal. In this fulfilling role, you'll make a real difference in the lives of individuals with complex needs, helping them on their recovery journey. You'll have access to training and development opportunities, ensuring your career aspirations are met while working in a culture built on kindness and teamwork. With a structured approach to care, you'll be part of an organization that values its employees and offers a range of benefits, including a competitive salary and generous leave. If you're ready to take on this rewarding challenge, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

33 days annual leave

Free meals

Free parking

Wellbeing support

Career development

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Retail discounts

Special offers

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare settings, particularly with challenging behaviour.
• Ability to work effectively in a team and adapt to changing situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and support to individuals with high support needs.
• Assist with personal hygiene and update patient records.
• Participate in ward rounds and collaborate with colleagues.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Teamwork

Education

Healthcare Assistant Certification

Job description

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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 Ann House in Kendal 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 continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs, 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.

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

Where You Will Be Working

Location: Ann Street, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 6AA

Ann House provides a specialist provision with enhanced levels of support which allows people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs to be cared for in the least restrictive setting possible, but within a service which is robust and structured enough to meet their ongoing needs and risks.

The service ensures people lead good and meaningful everyday lives, where they have choice and control, accessing mainstream services and facilities, engaging in work and training, in leisure opportunities, hobbies and areas of personal interest. Ann House encourages people to be as independent as possible with the long-term aim of people moving onto a more independent living setting.

What You Will Get

• Annual salary of £26,728 (40 hours per week)
• 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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