Healthcare Support Worker

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Full time
Location: Workington
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Job offered by: NHS
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This is a great opportunity to join Elysium Healthcare as a Healthcare Support Worker in Workington. You will be part of an inclusive and supportive team providing care to people with a range of Mental Health conditions, helping them along their recovery pathway. The role offers a competitive annual salary of £25,272, as well as a range of additional benefits including training and development opportunities, wellbeing support, and a pension contribution. Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Support Worker, you will join an inclusive and supportive team that works together to provide care and support to people with a range of Mental Health conditions. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include ward rounds, analyzing behaviors and adapting care accordingly, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene. The role can be challenging at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important. However, it is highly rewarding to see people improve due to your involvement. Job responsibilities

Are you a naturally caring experienced Healthcare Support Worker 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 Gregory House in Workington as a Healthcare Support Worker 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 a range of Mental Health conditions, 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. 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, 40 hours per week. Where you will be working

Location:

Furness Road, Workington, Cumbria, CA14 3PD You will be working at Gregory House, a Learning Disability and Autism service, providing care and support to 22 adults who have a Learning Disability and/or Mental Health needs. You will work alongside the team helping to provide a specialist provision. The service has an enhanced level of support to allow people with continuing challenging behavior 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. Gregory 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 Opportunity for overtime 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 experience as a Healthcare Support Worker in the UK is preferred. 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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