Healthcare Assistant - Preston - Lancashire

Brainkind; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

EAP

Training and support

Company pension

Life assurance

Eye voucher scheme

Long service awards

Free parking

Job summary

Brainkind is recruiting a Healthcare Assistant in Preston, Lancashire, for a 36-hour rota-based week. This full-time, permanent role offers a competitive hourly rate with a Bank Holiday/Weekend enhancement.

The role focuses on delivering high-quality neurological care, personal support, and collaborative care planning within a supportive team. You will assist with rehabilitation goals, report accurately, and contribute to the service's continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience of working within a team.
• Care delivery experience.
• Willing to provide personal care.
• Good communication skills.
• Numeracy and literacy skills.
• IT skills including accessing and using the internet, email and word.

Responsibilities

• Working with other team members to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional recovery.
• Carrying out personal care duties with close supervision and making judgements involving straightforward facts or situations.
• Monitoring the physical and emotional well-being of all clients and alertting senior colleagues as necessary.
• Ensuring accurate reporting and documentation.
• Reviewing and suggesting improvements to enhance individuals’ experience.
• Promoting choice in the delivery of care and enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by the individual or representatives.
• Supporting service users to have their views considered in how the service is provided.
• Maintaining a safe working environment and safeguarding, including handling cash and service users’ valuables.
• Facilitating smooth running of the Service and occasional additional tasks.

Skills

Teamwork

Care delivery

Personal care

Communication

Numeracy & literacy

IT skills (internet, email, Word)

Job description

Healthcare Assistant - Preston - Lancashire

Hours:

36 hours on a rota basis

Contract Type:

Full-time, permanent

Pay Rate:

£13.21 per hour with £1 extra on a Bank Holiday and Weekend

Please note we do not offer sponsorship for this role

Why join us?

If you are passionate about providing expert and compassionate care and looking to develop in your career as a Healthcare Assistant in the field of Neurological care, Brainkind has an amazing opportunity for you!

About the role:

• Working with other team members to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional recovery. Ensuring that rehabilitation goals, strategies and procedures are implemented and reinforced
• Carrying out personal care duties with close supervision and making judgements involving straightforward facts or situations
• Monitoring the physical and emotional well-being of all clients in order to be aware of changes and to alert senior colleagues, as necessary. Assisting in maintaining morale of clients by communication and contact – achieved by talking and working with them
• Ensuring accurate reporting and documentation
• Reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the individuals’ experience. Challenging practice as appropriate and supporting junior and new staff
• Promoting choice in the delivery of care and support. Enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by the individual and/or their representatives.
• Supporting service users to have their views and experiences considered in the way the service is provided and delivered
• Having a personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources. This includes safeguarding, handling cash and service users’ valuables
• Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks
• For an insight in to what the role would entail please watch our video detailing a Day in the Life of one of our Support Workers at Brainkind: Working at Brainkind: A day in the life - Millie

About you:

• Proven experience of working within a team
• Care delivery experience
• Willing to provide personal care
• Good communication skills
• Numeracy and literacy skills
• IT skills including accessing and using the internet, email and word

Rewards

• A competitive rate of £13.21 per hour with £1 extra on a Bank Holiday and Weekend
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Company Pension
• Group life assurance
• Eye voucher scheme
• Long service and staff awards
• Free parking

We also put a big focus on employee wellbeing and support. It matters to us that you feel at your best. Career development is a priority. We will ensure you get all the training and learning opportunities you need to achieve your goals.

**Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. **

*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks*

Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.