Healthcare Support Worker

Integrated Care System; Workington; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider offers a rewarding role as a Healthcare Support Worker, where you will make a significant impact on the lives of adults with learning disabilities and mental health needs. This position emphasizes supportive teamwork, training opportunities, and excellent work-life balance.

Benefits

Annual salary of £25,272

33 days annual leave including birthday off

Free meals and parking

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Retail discounts and special offers

Qualifications

• Experience as a Healthcare Support Worker in the UK.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to undergo training and development.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ward rounds and update patient records.
• Assist with personal care and support residents.
• Analyze behaviors and adapt care.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Job description

This Healthcare Support Worker role at Elysium Healthcare's Gregory House in Workington offers a rewarding opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of adults with Learning Disabilities and/or Mental Health needs. The position provides a competitive annual salary of £25,272 plus a range of excellent benefits, including career development support and a focus on work-life balance.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Support Worker, you will join a supportive, inclusive team that works collaboratively to provide personalized care and support to residents. Your responsibilities will include ward rounds, behavior analysis, patient record updating, and assisting with personal care. The role requires a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance to navigate the challenges of the environment, but the opportunity to see residents improve and lead more fulfilling lives is highly rewarding.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to healthcare delivery. As part of the global Ramsay Health Care network, Elysium operates over 90 services across England and Wales, covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, providing ample opportunities for career growth and development.

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 Housein Workingtonas 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 witha range of Mental Healthconditions, usingyour 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, 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 Housein Workingtonas 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 witha range of Mental Healthconditions, usingyour 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, 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.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. 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

• The ideal candidate will have experience as a Healthcare Support Worker in the UK, demonstrating a natural caring nature and the ability to work effectively within a team. Strong communication skills, the willingness to undergo training and development, and a commitment to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users are also essential.

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.