Healthcare Assistant

Elysium Healthcare

The closing date is 15 February 2025

Job summary

This is a Healthcare Assistant role at Elysium Healthcare, a leading healthcare provider with over 8,000 employees across a network of over 90 services in England and Wales. The role is based in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and involves providing care and support to individuals with learning disabilities, mental health issues, or personality disorders. The job offers a competitive annual salary of £25,272 plus benefits, and the opportunity for career development and training.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will be part of a supportive and inclusive team providing care and support to individuals with complex needs, including those with learning disabilities, mental health issues, and personality disorders. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include ward rounds, analyzing behaviors, updating patient records, and assisting with personal hygiene. The work can be challenging at times, requiring a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance, but it is also highly rewarding to see the people in your care improve and lead more fulfilling lives.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile healthcare provider with a unique approach to care delivery. With a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people, Elysium Healthcare offers opportunities for growth and career development.

Date posted

18 December 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,272 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

1211005877

Job locations

Elysium Healthcare

Grimsby

DN37 0AA


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 Bradley Apartments in Grimsby 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 Learning Disability and Autism 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 days, nights and weekends on rota basis. 40 hours per week.   

Where you will be working

Location: Bradley Road, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, DN37 0AA

You will work at  Bradley Apartments, a specialist service for men and women living with complex needs who may have a primary diagnosis of learning disability, mental health issue or personality disorder.

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to support people who display behaviours of concern and pose challenges for services, including those with highly complex and severe challenging behaviour.

 Bradley Apartments is located in Bradley, Grimsby, and North East Lincolnshire. The location provides a more relaxed local environment than a busy inner-city setting, which supports service users engaging in their therapeutic programme, thus increasing the pace of recovery and speeding up discharge. 

What you will get

  • Annual salary of £25,272 
  • 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.

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.

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 Bradley Apartments in Grimsby 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 Learning Disability and Autism 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 days, nights and weekends on rota basis. 40 hours per week.   

Where you will be working

Location: Bradley Road, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, DN37 0AA

You will work at  Bradley Apartments, a specialist service for men and women living with complex needs who may have a primary diagnosis of learning disability, mental health issue or personality disorder.

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary team to support people who display behaviours of concern and pose challenges for services, including those with highly complex and severe challenging behaviour.

 Bradley Apartments is located in Bradley, Grimsby, and North East Lincolnshire. The location provides a more relaxed local environment than a busy inner-city setting, which supports service users engaging in their therapeutic programme, thus increasing the pace of recovery and speeding up discharge. 

What you will get

  • Annual salary of £25,272 
  • 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.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is preferred. The role is open to those with a naturally caring and compassionate nature, who are committed to making a positive difference in the lives of others.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is preferred. The role is open to those with a naturally caring and compassionate nature, who are committed to making a positive difference in the lives of others.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Elysium Healthcare

Address

Elysium Healthcare

Grimsby

DN37 0AA


Employer's website

https://www.elysiumhealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Elysium Healthcare

Address

Elysium Healthcare

Grimsby

DN37 0AA


Employer's website

https://www.elysiumhealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Team

Elysium Healthcare

recruitment@elysiumhealthcare.co.uk

Date posted

18 December 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,272 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

1211005877

Job locations

Elysium Healthcare

Grimsby

DN37 0AA


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