Senior Healthcare Assistant

Job Description

If you care for others without a second thought and are looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference and changes lives for the better, then a Senior Healthcare Assistant and Healthy Living Champion at the modern purpose-built service,Pinhoe View could be the right choice for you.With previous experience working in healthcare through the NHS or private sector, you’ll receive training to join the team where you will be valued and supported, with career development opportunities available.It’s a career that you can take pride in while enjoying the satisfaction of helping people and seeing them improve. It’s what delivering great healthcare should feel like.What you will be doingYou will join the team that works well together to provide care for people with acute mental health conditions. Whether you have been a Support Worker or a Care Worker, you will utilise your experience to support people to lead a valued and fulfilled life.As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, youll support the physical health team and the registered Dietician in delivering care plans and referrals. This will see you work closely with the catering department ensuring that service user’s dietary requirements areassessed on admission, checking for allergies and intolerances and communicating this with the catering department.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; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week because of you.We are actively encouraging female candidates to apply for this role Pinhoe View due to the female-only service user population. This is to accommodate the needs of our service users in the most efficient manner.Where you will be workingLocation: Pinhoe View, College Way, Exeter, EX1 3PZPinhoe View is a new purpose-built facility where a range of mental health services are provided for adults with acute mental health conditions across two wards and eight individual flats.The 24-hour acute inpatient service is supported by a full multidisciplinary team, which specialises in the assessment, treatment and stabilisation of people suffering from a significant mental health episode and in crisis. You will work shift patterns includingweekends, bank holidays and nights.Standard shifts are 12 hours a day, working 3 days one week, 4 days the next, 40.25 hours per weekWhat you will get•Annual salary of £26,289.•The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!•Free meals and parking•Wellbeing support and activities•Career development and training•Pension contribution•Life Assurance•Enhanced Maternity Package•Flexible working opportunitiesThere is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more.About your next employerYou 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.The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.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. Candidateswill be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.