Mental Health Nurse jobs in United Kingdom

This is a Bank Healthcare Assistant role with Elysium Healthcare, a leading provider of mental health services in the UK. The role offers flexible working, with the ability to choose your own shifts, competitive pay, and the opportunity to work in a rewarding and supportive environment. The successful candidate will join a team that provides care for women with complex emotional and mental health issues, focusing on active rehabilitation and sustainable discharge.

As a Bank Healthcare Assistant, you will work alongside a team to provide care and support for women with complex emotional and mental health problems associated with significant risk behaviours. This can be a challenging but rewarding role, requiring a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance. You will focus on active rehabilitation with the aim of helping residents achieve sustainable discharge. The role offers flexible working, with the ability to choose your own shifts, and a range of benefits including free meals and parking.

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile healthcare provider with over 8,000 employees and a network of over 90 services across England and Wales. The company has a unique approach to the delivery of care and is part of the global Ramsay Health Care network, which employs over 86,000 people worldwide.

Are you an experienced Healthcare Assistant or Support Worker wanting control and flexibility to work the shifts you want?

Whether you’re looking for extra shifts to boost your income or a flexible job that fits around your lifestyle, if you’re an experienced Healthcare Assistant in the UK you can join our staff bank and, after completing a paid two-week induction, you’ll have access to available shifts at Spring Wood Lodge in Guiseley plus the potential future option to work bank shifts regionally at other Elysium services across the region.

There is no minimum number of hours that you need to work, although it is recommended to work as often as you can to ensure your induction knowledge and familiarity with the service is retained.

Weekdays, nights and weekend shifts are regularly available, which are easy to view and book through an app. Within a few taps you’ll have the shifts at [site name] secured that you want.

Whether your nursing experience is from the NHS or private sector, you can join the team as a Bank Healthcare Assistant with an hourly rate that includes a 12.07% uplift to cover annual leave, plus have access to a range of benefits including free meals on duty, free parking and more.

What you will be doing:

You will join the team that works well together to provide care for people with supports women over the age of 18 who have complex emotional and mental health problems associated with significant risk behaviours.

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; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week because of you.

With Elysium, you’ll get to experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like as you make a real difference to some of the most vulnerable people in society, with plenty to keep you engaged and motivated as you’re rewarded and enjoy a fulfilling role. The service operates 24/7 with 12.5 hour standard shifts. As a Healthcare Assistant on our bank you’ll be on a zero hour contract, giving you the freedom to choose which shifts you want to work each week. Where you will be working:

Location:1 Towngate Close, Guiseley, Leeds, LS20 9PQ

You will be working at Spring Wood Lodge, a service that supports women over the age of 18 who have complex emotional and mental health problems associated with significant risk behaviours. Typically they have a diagnosis of personality disorder or a severe mental illness.

They may not have had their needs met in a general psychiatric service including acute inpatient units, community mental health teams or community personality disorder service. Working as part of a team, you will focus on active rehabilitation with a view to achieving sustainable discharge. What you will get:

• An hourly rate of up to £12.85 (plus a 12.07% holiday allowance uplift)
• Weekly pay!
• Two-week paid induction
• App access to book shifts easily and quickly
• Free meals and parking
• Mandatory training to ensure you are fully able to do your job at the best of your ability.
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.

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 and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

• You should have previous experience as a Healthcare Assistant or Support Worker. No specific qualifications are required, but you must be able to demonstrate the necessary skills and experience to work effectively in a challenging mental health environment.

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.