Bank Healthcare Assistant

Elysium Healthcare; Kendal; On-site; IDR 100.000.000 - 200.000.000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Kendal is seeking a Bank Healthcare Assistant to join their team. This role offers flexibility to choose preferred shifts and competitive pay. Candidates will provide care for individuals with learning disabilities and autism. Experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or Care Worker is preferred. The position includes a two-week paid induction, mandatory training, and support for a great work-life balance. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable individuals.

Benefits

Hourly rate of £14.40

Weekly pay

Two-week paid induction

App access to book shifts

Free meals and parking

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Relevant experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or Care Worker is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and support to people with learning disabilities and autism.
• Utilize experience to help residents live fulfilling lives.
• Engage with residents in a positive and compassionate manner.

Skills

Positive attitude

Compassion

Resilience

Vigilance

Job description

The Bank Healthcare Assistant role at Elysium Healthcare's Ann House in Kendal offers flexibility, control, and the opportunity to work with people with learning disabilities and autism. With a competitive hourly rate, paid induction, and various benefits, this temporary position allows experienced healthcare assistants to choose the shifts that fit their lifestyle. The service aims to provide the least restrictive yet robust care to support residents in leading meaningful, independent lives.

Main duties of the job

As a Bank Healthcare Assistant, you will be part of a team providing care and support to people with learning disabilities and autism at Ann House in Kendal. You will utilize your experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or Care Worker to help residents improve and live fulfilling lives. The role requires a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance to navigate the challenging environment at times. You will have the freedom to choose your desired shifts through an app, with weekday, night, and weekend shifts regularly available.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is a leading healthcare provider with over 8,000 employees and a network of 90+ services across England and Wales, covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education. As part of the global Ramsay Health Care network, Elysium Healthcare is committed to delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care.

Job responsibilities

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 Ann House in Kendal, 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 Ann House 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.

What you will be doing:

You will join the team that works well together to provide care for people with Learning Disabilities and Autism. Whether you are currently a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker or Care Worker, you will utilise your experience to support people to lead a valued and fulfilled life.

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:

Ann House provides a specialist provision with enhanced levels of support which allows 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. Ann 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:

• An hourly rate of £14.40 (inclusive of 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: Elysium Healthcare has 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required, but relevant experience as a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker, or Care Worker is preferred.

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.