Healthcare Support Worker

NHS; Workington; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Workington seeks a caring Healthcare Support Worker to assist individuals with mental health conditions. This rewarding role involves providing compassionate support, participating in ward rounds, and adapting care as needed. You will benefit from a competitive salary, extensive training opportunities, and supportive environment within a dedicated team. Experience in healthcare will be advantageous and a driving license is preferred due to limited public transport.

Benefits

Annual salary of £25,272

Opportunity for overtime

33 days annual leave plus birthday off

Free meals and parking

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Qualifications

• Experience as a Healthcare Support Worker or in a similar role is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate care and support to individuals with mental health conditions.
• Participate in ward rounds and update patient records.
• Assist with personal hygiene and adapt care based on behaviors.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Teamwork

Job description

The Healthcare Support Worker role at Elysium Healthcare's Gregory House in Workington offers an opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of individuals with a range of mental health conditions. The role involves providing compassionate care and support, contributing to the recovery pathway, and helping people lead more independent and fulfilled lives. The position offers a competitive annual salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Support Worker, you will join a supportive and inclusive team that works collaboratively to provide care and support to individuals with mental health conditions. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include ward rounds, analyzing behaviors, updating patient records, and assisting with personal hygiene. The role requires a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance, as the environment can be challenging at times. However, the job is highly rewarding, as you will see the direct impact of your efforts on the lives of the people you serve.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established and agile healthcare provider with over 8,000 employees and a network of over 90 services across England and Wales. The company specializes in the delivery of mental health, neurological, learning disability, and autism services, offering a unique approach to care. As part of the Ramsay Health Care group, Elysium Healthcare has a global presence, with operations in 10 countries and over 86,000 employees worldwide.

Job responsibilities

Are you a naturally caring experienced Healthcare Support Worker 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 Gregory House in Workington as a Healthcare Support Worker 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 recovery 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, 40 hours per week.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Are you a naturally caring experienced Healthcare Support Worker 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 Gregory House in Workington as a Healthcare Support Worker 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 recovery 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, 40 hours per week.

Public transport is limited to this site. You will ideally need to be a driver or live locally to Workington.

Where you will be working:

Location: Furness Road, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 3PD

You will be working at Gregory House, a Learning Disability and Autism service, providing care and support to 22 adults who have a Learning Disability and/or Mental Health needs. You will work alongside the team helping to provide a specialist provision. The service has an enhanced level of support to allow people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs to be cared for in the least restrictive setting possible, but within a service which is robust and structured enough to meet their ongoing needs and risks. The service ensures people lead good and meaningful everyday lives, where they have choice and control, accessing mainstream services and facilities, engaging in work and training, in leisure opportunities, hobbies and areas of personal interest. Gregory House encourages people to be as independent as possible with the long-term aim of people moving onto a more independent living setting.

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £25,272
• Opportunity for overtime
• 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.

There is a Safer recruitment policy. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Support Worker or in a similar role within the healthcare industry 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.