Healthcare Assistant

Elysium Healthcare; Warrington; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in the UK seeks a Healthcare Assistant to support patients at their Warrington facility. Responsibilities include care provision, updating records, and participating in ward rounds. The role requires compassion and resilience, with opportunities for career development, a salary of £25,058, and benefits including annual leave and wellbeing support.

Benefits

33 days annual leave including birthday off

Free meals and parking

Wellbeing support and activities

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is preferred.
• A positive attitude is crucial for this role.
• Compassion, resilience, and vigilance are essential qualities.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and support to patients with mental health conditions.
• Perform ward rounds and analyze patient behaviors.
• Update patient records and assist with personal hygiene.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Job description

This is a Healthcare Assistant role at Elysium Healthcare, a leading provider of mental health services in the UK. The role involves providing care and support to patients with a range of mental health conditions at their Arbury Court facility in Warrington. The job offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities for career development and training.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will be part of an inclusive and supportive team that works together to provide care and support to patients with a range of mental health conditions. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include ward rounds, analyzing patient behaviors, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene. The work can be challenging at times, but it is also highly rewarding to see patients improve and lead more fulfilled lives.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established and stable company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to delivering care. They have a network of over 90 services across England and Wales, covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, providing 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 atArbury CourtinWarringtonas a Healthcare Assistantand 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 witha range of Mental Healthconditions, 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.

Where you will be working:

Location:Townfield Lane, Winwick,Warrington, Cheshire,WA2 8TR

Arbury Court provides medium and low secure care and Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU) for women aged 18 years and over with Personality Disorder (PD) and mental illness. Each service within the site has a unique focus, ensuring that the needs of all women can be met. Patients can move through services as their needs change, to focus on the next step in their recovery journey.

The service offers a personalised assessment and recovery-based treatment pathway for women with complex needs. Using the rehabilitation and recovery treatment approach, we ensure that care is focused on the person."

• Annual salary of£25,058
• 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is preferred. A positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important qualities for this 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.