Healthcare Assistant

This is a Healthcare Assistant role at Elysium Healthcare's Bradley Complex Care facility in Grimsby, UK. The role involves providing care and support to people with complex needs, including learning disabilities, mental health issues, or personality disorders. The job offers competitive pay, benefits, and opportunities for career development and training.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant, you will join a supportive team providing care and support to individuals with complex needs. Your responsibilities will include ward rounds, analyzing behaviors, updating patient records, and assisting with personal hygiene. The role requires a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance, as it can be challenging at times. However, it is highly rewarding to see people improve due to your involvement and know that you have made a positive difference in their lives.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established and stable company with over 8,000 employees and a network of over 90 services across England and Wales. Elysium is part of the global Ramsay Health Care group, which has a presence in 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people worldwide. The company is known for its unique approach to care delivery and provides opportunities for growth and career development.

Job responsibilities

If you want to make a positive difference in the lives of others and change lives for the better, then join the team at Bradley Complex Care 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 complex needs who may have a primary diagnosis of learning disability, mental health issue, or personality disorder, 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, analyzing behaviors and adapting care accordingly with colleagues, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene.

The shift pattern is 11.42 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including days, nights, and weekends on a rota basis, totaling 40 hours per week.

Where you will be working

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

You will work at Bradley Complex Care, 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 behaviors of concern and pose challenges for services, including those with highly complex and severe challenging behavior.

Bradley Complex Care 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 program, 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 (including 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required, but previous experience as a Healthcare Assistant 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.