This Healthcare Assistant role at Stanley House in Hereford offers a fulfilling and rewarding career opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of others. The role involves providing personalized care and support to residents with neurological conditions, assisting with daily activities, and contributing to their rehabilitation and recovery journey. The organization values its employees, offering a range of benefits, training, and development opportunities to support personal and professional growth.
Main duties of the job
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will join a supportive and inclusive team that works collaboratively to deliver high-quality care to residents with neurological conditions. Your responsibilities will include participating in ward rounds, analyzing behaviors, updating patient records, and providing personalized care and assistance with daily living activities, such as personal hygiene. The role requires a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance, as the environment can be challenging at times. However, the opportunity to see residents improve and have a meaningful impact on their lives is highly rewarding.
About us
Elysium Healthcare is an established and stable company with over 8,000 employees, providing a unique approach to the delivery of care across England and Wales. As part of the Ramsay Health Care global network, the organization offers a wide range of services, including Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, and Children & Education, providing opportunities for growth and development within the 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 at Stanley House in Herefordas 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.
There’s flexibility on offer, with full time, part time and flexible contracts available to fit around your commitments and lifestyle. If you want a long-term and secure career that will grow and support your personal development to achieve your career aspirations, then you’ve come to the right place.
Job description
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 Stanley House in Herefordas 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.
There’s flexibility on offer, with full time, part time and flexible contracts available to fit around your commitments and lifestyle. If you want a long-term and secure career that will grow and support your personal development to achieve your career aspirations, then you’ve come to the right place.
What you will be doing
You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with neurological conditions,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 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including days, nights and alternate weekends. 37.5 hours per week.
Where you will be working
Location:Bosbury, Hereford, Herefordshire,HR8 1HB You will be working at Stanley House, a service which offers a multidisciplinary approach to its long term care provision and provides the specialised care and expert therapeutic interventions. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, you will support and enable residents to undergo reviews of their specific and/or changing needs. Stanley House offers therapies and activities which include Physiotherapy and Art therapy and receives input from a Professor in Neuropsychiatry and monthly specialist GP clinics.
Residents at Stanley House have varying needs, from being able to manage some of their own needs, to being fully reliant. This includes personal care involving washing, dressing, shaving and helping with continence needs. Helping residents to eat is also a big part of the daily routine.
End-of-life care is also provided to enable residents to stay in the comfort and familiar surroundings at Stanley House, where their family can also be supported.
There’s plenty of fun to be had too, through supporting residents to take part in regular communal activities, from providing wheelchair and walking assistance, to afternoons of laugher with bouncy castles, family fun days and trips to the local café, shops and bowling. Its these precious moments that are most rewarding and make it all worthwhile.
What you will get
* Annual salary of £25,057
* 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 caring, compassionate nature are 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.
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