Healthcare Assistant MH Inpatient St Michaels

Integrated Care System; Warwick; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A health care network in the United Kingdom is seeking a motivated Healthcare Assistant for its inpatient wards. This role involves providing direct patient care and supporting recovery in a dynamic environment. Ideal candidates will be kind, compassionate, and eager to develop their skills while working alongside a supportive team. The position offers opportunities for training and development, as well as benefits such as generous annual leave and well-being support.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Wellbeing support

Discounts with various retailers

Qualifications

• Experience of working within mental health services/care setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct care according to the individual needs of the patient.
• Support the development, implementation, and evaluation of care.

Skills

Good written communications

Education

NVQ/QCF Level 3/Care certificate or equivalent qualification or be working towards

Good level of general education including literacy and numeracy

Job description

Go back Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Healthcare Assistant MH Inpatient St Michaels

The closing date is 19 August 2025

We are recruiting Mental Health Care Assistants, and we need your help! Experience is not essential however you must be motivated, kind and compassionate with a can do attitude to be successful in this role.

We need people who can offer flexibility, each day meeting the challenges of working shift patterns across 24 hours 7 days per week in very busy inpatient environments.

The post holder will join with all the members of staff who work in the Trust to provide a first class service both to patients and their carers.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for people who are keen and enthusiastic to become part of our friendly and supportive Team. We are seeking only the best Health Care Assistant, those who really want to 'make a difference', with the Trust values at the core of patient care.

Do you feel you could meet our patient's expectations? Do you want to develop your skills, with the backing of a well-developed team and make a difference to the recovery of our patients?

Are you seeking an opportunity to join a forward thinking Trust, great career opportunities, excellent training, where you can be challenged but rewarded and provide the standard of care to really make a difference every day - If the answer is yes, we want you to join our team.

The successful candidate will form part of a team of Health Care Assistants to work in inpatients wards at the Caludon Centre. You will provide direct care according to the individual needs of the patient but will also support the development, implementation and evaluation of care.

Inpatient services will provide a service to people experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis (functional or organic) who require urgent treatment and delivery of required interventions who may be detained under the Mental Health Act, whilst using the least restrictive environment to facilitate recovery.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us

excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more

salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more

discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes

wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more

staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ/QCF Level 3/Care certificate or equivalent qualification or be working towards
• Good level of general education including literacy and numeracy
• Willing and able to undertake training including MAPA and Basic life support, food hygiene

Knowledge and skills

• Good written communications

Experience

• Experience of working within mental health services/care setting.

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.

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust