Healthcare Assistant

NHS; Worksop; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Worksop is seeking a Healthcare Assistant to support individuals with Learning Disabilities and Autism. The role entails assisting with daily living activities, maintaining service user records, and providing essential care. This position offers a salary of £25,058 and a range of benefits including training, health support, and enhanced maternity packages. The employer values compassionate and resilient staff who can thrive in a challenging environment, ensuring meaningful lives for service users.

Benefits

Annual base salary of £25,058

33 days annual leave plus additional options

Career development and training

Wellbeing support

Access to Blue Light Card

Life Assurance

24/7 GP service

Pension contribution

Free/subsidised meals

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required; experience with Learning Disabilities or Autism beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with activities of daily living.
• Complete service user records.
• Provide care including personal care.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Experience with Learning Disabilities

Job description

This is a Healthcare Assistant role at Elysium Healthcare, a provider of specialist care services for individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism, and sensory and communication differences. The role involves supporting service users in their daily activities, both within the home and in the community, to help them lead more independent and fulfilling lives.

Job responsibilities

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will join a supportive and inclusive team that works together to provide care and support to individuals with Learning Disabilities and Autism. Your responsibilities will include assisting with activities of daily living, completing service user records, and providing overall care and support, which may include helping with personal care.

What you will be doing:

You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with Learning Disabilities and Autism, using your knowledge and skills to support and encourage individuals to lead a full and meaningful life, enabling them to live more independently through a programme of active community engagement, developing social networks and coping strategies.

Your day to day will include supporting individuals with activities of daily living, activities within the home and community, completing service user records and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal care.

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.

Location and setting

Location: Colliery Road, Creswell, Worksop, S80 4BX.

Be part of a new team at this residential service for adults under 65 years with a Learning Disability, Autism and sensory and communication differences located in Creswell, a 10 minute drive from Worksop.

Dove House is a specialist, robust service to support people with ongoing complex needs and behaviours that challenge who are stepping down from hospital or to avoid an inappropriate admission to hospital and to enable them to return to their home area. The model was introduced to emulate community care for individuals with complex needs in robust, spacious accommodation.

The services are staffed 24 hours a day by a dedicated team of Registered Manager, Deputy Manager, Nurses and Support Workers.

Benefits

• Annual base salary of £25,058
• 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/subsidised meals and onsite/local free parking

About your next employer

Elysium Healthcare has 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 in a similar role or working with individuals with Learning Disabilities or Autism would be beneficial.

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.