Healthcare Assistant

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Retailer discounts

Wellbeing support

Staff networks

Job summary

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) is recruiting Healthcare Assistants to work on adolescent assessment and treatment wards at Brooklands Hospital in Solihull. You will support people with learning disabilities and autism, delivering compassionate, person-centred care within a skilled MDT.

You could join us from backgrounds as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker or caring for someone with a learning disability or autism. A recruitment event will be held on-site.

Qualifications

• Experience as Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or caring for someone with learning disability or autism.

Responsibilities

• Support people with learning disabilities and autism on adolescent assessment and treatment wards.
• Deliver high-quality, person-centred care within a multidisciplinary team.
• Promote independence and meaningful daily activities.
• Help maintain a safe, secure environment.

Job description

We're looking for compassionate, motivated Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) to join our secure, adolescent and assessment and treatment wards at Brooklands Hospital in Solihull, a centre of excellence for learning disability and autism services. As an HCA, you'll play a vital role in supporting people with a learning disability and Autistic people, helping them feel safe, valued and supported throughout their recovery. You'll build trusting relationships, promote independence and deliver high-quality, person-centred care. Working as part of a skilled multidisciplinary team, you'll support therapeutic interventions, meaningful daily activities, and help maintain a safe and secure environment. We're looking for people who are passionate about reducing health inequalities, promoting inclusion and improving outcomes. Whether you have experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or caring for someone with a learning disability or autism, we'd love to hear from you. Successful applicants will be invited to a recruitment event at Brooklands Hospital to meet our teams, hear from patients, learn more about the role and interview on the same day. If you're committed to making a real difference while developing your career, we'd love to welcome you to our team.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.