Part Time Healthcare Assistant

Integrated Care System; Thatcham; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization as a part-time Healthcare Assistant at Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham. In this rewarding role, you'll provide personalized care for individuals with mental health conditions, participate in ward rounds, and collaborate with a supportive team to enhance patient recovery. Enjoy a competitive salary, professional development opportunities, and various employee benefits that promote work-life balance. This position offers a vital opportunity to positively impact people's lives.

Benefits

Annual salary of £15,035 for 22.5 hours a week

Location Allowance of £1,619 (pro rata)

33 days annual leave

Free meals and parking

Wellbeing support

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Qualifications

• Natural caring disposition is essential.
• Comprehensive training will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Participate in ward rounds and analyze behaviors.
• Update patient records and assist with personal hygiene.
• Work with multidisciplinary team on care plans.

Skills

Compassion

Resilience

Positive attitude

Vigilance

Education

Experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK

Job description

This is a part-time healthcare assistant role at Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham, Berkshire. The successful candidate will join a supportive and inclusive team that provides care to individuals with a range of mental health conditions. The role involves ward rounds, analyzing behaviors, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, including assistance with personal hygiene. The shift pattern is 12.5 hours per day.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant at Thornford Park Hospital, you will be responsible for providing personalized care and support to individuals with mental health conditions. Your duties will include participating in ward rounds, analyzing behaviors, updating patient records, and assisting with personal hygiene tasks. You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to deliver tailored assessment and treatment programs. The role requires a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance to navigate the challenging environment. However, the opportunity to make a positive difference in people's lives and see them improve through your involvement is highly rewarding.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established and stable company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. They operate a network of over 90 services across England and Wales, covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education. As part of the Ramsay Health Care global network, Elysium Healthcare offers opportunities for growth and development within a supportive and progressive organization.

Job responsibilities

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 atThornford Park HospitalinThatchamas a Healthcare Assistant on a part time basis 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 arange of mental healthconditions, usingyour knowledgeand 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

Where you will be working

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 £15,035 (22.5 hours a week)
• £1,619 Location Allowance (pro rata)
• 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

• No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK and a natural caring disposition are essential. The successful candidate will receive comprehensive training and development opportunities to support their career aspirations.

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.