Healthcare Assistant - BSL Trained

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Healthcare Assistant who is British Sign Language (BSL) trained to join the team at All Saints Hospital in Oldham. You'll be working as part of a supportive and friendly team, delivering high-quality care and support to individuals with daily living skills, engaging in meaningful activities, and updating resident records. The role offers a range of benefits, including an annual salary of £23,692.50, and the chance to develop your career through training and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Assistant at All Saints Hospital, you will be responsible for supporting individuals with daily living skills, actively engaging them in activities, updating resident records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal care. You will be working in a 12-hour shift pattern, 3-4 days a week, including nights and weekends. A Level 1 qualification in British Sign Language is required for this role.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is 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 within the organisation. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care, a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

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,and havea BritishSign Language Level 1 qualification, then join the team at All Saints Hospital in Oldham 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

Your day-to-day role will involve supporting individuals with daily living skills, actively engaging in activities meaningful to those you are supporting both in the service and within the community, updating resident records and feeding back relevant information to members of your team, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal care.

The shift pattern is 12 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including nights and weekends.

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,and havea BritishSign Language Level 1 qualification, then join the team at All Saints Hospital in Oldham 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

Your day-to-day role will involve supporting individuals with daily living skills, actively engaging in activities meaningful to those you are supporting both in the service and within the community, updating resident records and feeding back relevant information to members of your team, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal care.

The shift pattern is 12 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including nights and weekends.

Where you will be working

Location: Grange Avenue, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL8 4EF

All Saints Hospital is a specialist Mental Health service for people who are deaf or have complex communication needs. It is a culturally sensitive service which has been created to provide support and rehabilitation with care and intervention from both deaf and hearing members of staff. You will be working at a multidisciplinary team at All Saints which have self-contained flats for men over 18 years old, to help them move along their care pathway to more independent living.

• Annual salary of£23,692.50
• 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

• A Level 1 qualification in British Sign Language is required for this role.

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.