This Healthcare Assistant role at Elysium Healthcare's Ann House in Kendal, Cumbria, offers an annual salary of £25,272 plus a range of excellent benefits. You will be part of a supportive and friendly team, providing care and support to people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs. The shift pattern is 12.5 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including nights and weekends.
Main duties of the job
As a Healthcare Assistant at Ann House, you will join an inclusive and supportive team that works together to provide care to people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include ward rounds, analysing behaviours and adapting care accordingly, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene. It can be a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. However, the role is hugely rewarding as you will see people improve due to your involvement, knowing that you've made a positive difference in their lives.
About us
Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable and agile 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, there is ample opportunity for career growth and development.
Job responsibilities
What you will be doing:
You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs, using your knowledge and skills to help people along their recovery 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:
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:
* Annual salary of £25,272 (40 hours per week)
* 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 is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is preferred. The role requires a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance.
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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