Healthcare Assistant

Elysium Healthcare; St. Neots; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual salary £25,726

33 days leave including bank holidays

Career development and training

Ely-Vate rewards platform

Wellbeing support

Blue Light Card

Life Assurance

Earned wage access (Stream)

24/7 GP service

Enhanced Maternity Package

Pension contribution

Free meals & parking

Job summary

Elysium Healthcare’s St Neots Neurological Centre in St Neots is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to support patients with neurological conditions, supporting recovery and quality of life. You will work as part of a friendly, caring team with access to development options and a culture built on kindness and teamwork.

Your role includes ward rounds, updating records, and providing personal care. The shifts are 12.5 hours, 3–4 days a week including nights and weekends, offering a rewarding

Qualifications

• Experience caring for people with neurological conditions.
• Ability to work 12.5-hour shifts.
• Positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance.

Responsibilities

• Assist with ward rounds and observe behaviours; adapt care accordingly with colleagues.
• Update patient records and maintain accurate documentation.
• Provide overall care and support, including assistance with personal hygiene.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Positive attitude

Vigilance

Job description

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 St Neots Neurological Centre in St Neots 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 neurological conditions, 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

Howitts Lane, Eynesbury, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 2JA

Join the team at St Neots Neurological Service providing care, therapeutic and rehabilitation pathways for those affected by a neurological or mental health condition for which challenging behaviour may be the leading impairment.

St Neots Neurological Service is located in the centre of town and provides assessment, treatment, rehabilitation and complex care for both males and females suffering from a broad range of neurological conditions, which is provided by a highly experienced team based on site.

What You’ll Get

• Annual base salary of £25,726


• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.


• Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals


• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!


• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance


• Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts


• Life Assurance, for added peace of mind


• Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.


• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be


• Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time


• Pension contribution, to help secure your future


• Free Meals and local free parking

About Your Next Employer

Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 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