Healthcare Assistant

Integrated Care System; Midhurst; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a compassionate team as a Healthcare Assistant at the Middlewood Clinic, delivering holistic support to individuals with eating disorders. This fulfilling role emphasizes teamwork and personal development, offering a competitive salary with location allowances, backed by comprehensive training and career growth opportunities.

Benefits

£1,200 location allowance

33 days annual leave including bank holidays

Free meals

Wellbeing support and activities

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Retail discounts and special offers

Qualifications

• Experience as a Healthcare Assistant or in a similar caregiving role is advantageous.
• A positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate and personalized care to individuals with eating disorders.
• Assist with personal hygiene, update patient records, and participate in ward rounds.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to help improve patient wellbeing.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Positive attitude

Vigilance

Job description

This is a Healthcare Assistant role in the Middlewood Clinic, which is part of Elysium Healthcare, a leading provider of mental health and social care services in the UK. The role involves providing care and support to individuals with eating disorders, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to help them on their recovery journey.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will be responsible for providing compassionate and personalized care to individuals with eating disorders, such as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and atypical Eating Disorders. Your duties will include ward rounds, analyzing behaviors, updating patient records, and assisting with personal hygiene. You will work closely with a team of professionals, including nurses, psychologists, dieticians, and social workers, to deliver holistic care and support to help patients improve their physical and mental wellbeing.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is a well-established and stable company with over 8,000 employees, providing a range of mental health, neurological, learning disabilities, and autism services across England and Wales. As part of the Ramsay Health Care group, which has a global network of over 86,000 employees, Elysium Healthcare offers excellent opportunities for career growth and development.

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 Middlewood Clinic in Midhurstas a Healthcare Assistant and enjoy £1,200 location allowanceand 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 Eating Disordersconditions, usingyour 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. 37.5 hours per week.

Where you will be working

Location:Little Ashfield,Midhurst,West Sussex,GU29 9JP

Middlewood Clinic provide care and treatment for men and women who have an eating disorder including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and atypical Eating Disorders. Our approach will be to restore a healthy body weight and address psychological problems during treatment.

The Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) at Middlewood Clinic will be made up of the Registered Manager, Consultant Psychiatrist, Nurses, Healthcare Workers, Psychologist, Dietician, Occupational Therapist and Social Worker.

The hospital will have 12 comfortable ensuite bedrooms and a variety of communal and recreational spaces including lounge areas, a light and airy dining room, activities room, visitors room, therapy rooms, therapy kitchen area and a lovely cottage style garden.

Job description

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 Middlewood Clinic in Midhurstas a Healthcare Assistant and enjoy £1,200 location allowanceand 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 Eating Disordersconditions, usingyour 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. 37.5 hours per week.

Where you will be working

Location:Little Ashfield,Midhurst,West Sussex,GU29 9JP

Middlewood Clinic provide care and treatment for men and women who have an eating disorder including Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and atypical Eating Disorders. Our approach will be to restore a healthy body weight and address psychological problems during treatment.

The Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) at Middlewood Clinic will be made up of the Registered Manager, Consultant Psychiatrist, Nurses, Healthcare Workers, Psychologist, Dietician, Occupational Therapist and Social Worker.

The hospital will have 12 comfortable ensuite bedrooms and a variety of communal and recreational spaces including lounge areas, a light and airy dining room, activities room, visitors room, therapy rooms, therapy kitchen area and a lovely cottage style garden.

What you will get

• Annual salary of £25,253
• A £1,200 location allowance!
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals
• 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 or in a similar caregiving role would be advantageous. A positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are essential for this challenging yet rewarding 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.