Healthcare Assistant - Interview Day

Elysium Healthcare Limited; Thatcham; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Elysium Healthcare as a Healthcare Assistant at Thornford Park Hospital, where you’ll provide care for individuals with mental health conditions. This rewarding role involves supporting patients in their recovery, working alongside a dedicated team, and enjoying benefits like career development and a competitive salary.

Benefits

Annual salary of £26,676.50

33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)

Free meals and parking

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Enhanced Maternity Package

Qualifications

• Experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK.
• Positive attitude and ability to contribute to patient recovery.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to individuals with mental health conditions.
• Assist with personal hygiene and update patient records.
• Participate in ward rounds and collaborate with colleagues.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Teamwork

Job description

Introduction

Join us for our interview day on Thursday 17th July 2025!

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 Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham 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 a range of mental health 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:Thornford Park, Crookham Hill, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG19 8ET

You will be working at Thornford Park, a 130 bedded independent hospital which supports service users that require medium and low secure Forensic Mental Health Services. In addition to these services there is also a PICU Mental Health Service.

The service provides a seamless internal care pathway supporting and empowering people in their recovery and rehabilitation. Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will provide personalised assessment and treatment programmes for males with mental illness/complex care needs as well as those with personality disorder, and females and males in a PICU service.

What you will get

• •Annual salary of £26,676.50 (inclusive of a £1,619 Location Allowance)
  •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 are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and 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.