Healthcare Assistant

NHS; Leek; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Support Worker in Leek. You'll work with a dedicated team to provide compassionate care to individuals with mental health conditions. The role offers competitive salary, training, and a positive work-life balance. You'll assist with daily tasks, motivate service users, and contribute to their recovery journey in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Annual salary of £25,057.50

33 days annual leave plus birthday off

Wellbeing support and activities

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Retail discounts and special offers

Qualifications

• Experience as a Support Worker or in a similar caregiving role is advantageous.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a genuine desire to support individuals with mental health conditions.

Responsibilities

• Providing hands-on support and care to service users.
• Assisting with daily living tasks and community involvement.
• Updating patient records and ensuring a clean and safe environment.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Experience as a Support Worker

Job description

This is a rewarding opportunity to join the team at Ballington House in Leek as a Support Worker. You will be working with an experienced multi-disciplinary team to provide compassionate care and support to individuals with mental health conditions, helping them on their recovery journey. The role offers a range of benefits including a competitive salary, training and development, and a positive work-life balance.

Main duties of the job

As a Support Worker, you will be responsible for providing hands-on support and care to service users, assisting them with daily living tasks, community involvement, and working towards their recovery goals. You will be part of a supportive and inclusive team, using your knowledge and skills to make a positive difference in the lives of those you support. The role requires a positive attitude, compassion, and resilience, as you navigate the challenges of the environment, but the reward of seeing individuals improve and lead a more fulfilling life is immense.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established and stable company with over 8,000 employees, providing a range of healthcare services across England and Wales. As part of the Ramsay Health Care global network, there are opportunities for growth and development within the organisation.

Job responsibilities

Are you a naturally caring experienced Support Worker 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 Ballington House in Leek as a Support Worker 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 talking and interacting with service users, supporting, encouraging, and motivating them with all aspects of their recovery and treatment goals, such as daily living tasks, community involvement, etc., carrying out duties allocated by the MDT, updating patient records, responding to incidents, supporting mealtimes, and ensuring a clean and safe environment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you a naturally caring, experienced Support Worker 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 Ballington House in Leek as a Support Worker 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 talking and interacting with service users, supporting, encouraging, and motivating them with all aspects of their recovery and treatment goals, such as daily living tasks, community involvement, etc., carrying out duties allocated by the MDT, updating patient records, responding to incidents, supporting mealtimes, and ensuring a clean and safe environment. 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.

Where you will be working

Location: Ballington Gardens, Leek, Staffordshire ST13 5LW

You will be working at Ballington House, a 13-bedded mental health rehabilitation hospital that provides services for women with complex mental health needs.

The environment at Ballington House offers a pathway from admission to discharge which incorporates three phases: the assessment phase (accepting help), the rehabilitation phase (believing, trying, and learning), and the community phase-out (self-reliance).

The patients’ journey generally begins on the ground floor and as they move through each phase of their pathway, they proceed to the first floor and then the two-bedroomed apartment on the first floor.

You will work alongside an experienced multi-disciplinary team consisting of a consultant psychiatrist, clinical psychologist and assistants, an occupational therapist and assistants, nurses, and support workers.

What you will get

• Annual salary of £25,057.50
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
• 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 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 Support Worker or in a similar caregiving role would be advantageous. A positive attitude, strong interpersonal skills, and a genuine desire to support individuals with mental health conditions are essential.

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.