This role as a Healthcare Assistant at Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham, Berkshire offers the opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of individuals with a range of mental health conditions. You will be part of a supportive and inclusive team, providing personalized care and support to facilitate the recovery and rehabilitation of the service users. With a range of training and development options, this role allows you to grow and advance your career in the healthcare sector.
Main duties of the job
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will be responsible for various tasks, including ward rounds, analyzing behaviors, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene. You will be working in a challenging yet rewarding environment, where your positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance will be crucial in helping service users improve and lead a more fulfilled life. The shift pattern is 12.5 hours a day, 3-4 days a week, including nights and weekends.
About us
Elysium Healthcare is an established and stable company with over 8,000 employees, providing 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, the organization offers opportunities for growth and development within the healthcare sector.
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 at Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham as a Healthcare Assistant 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 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.
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 £26,676.50 (inclusive of a £1,619 Location Allowance) •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 previous experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK would be advantageous.
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.
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