Healthcare Assistant - New Ward

Introduction

Are you a Healthcare Assistant or Support Worker interested in working with service users on 12-week clear and structured treatment plans with clear objectives?

With a strong clinical and leadership team in a well-established and secure service, you can join the new 10 bedded medium secure male ward at Wellesley Hospital in Wellington.

If you want to experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like, then join the team on a new ward at Wellesley Hospital in Wellington and enjoy a £1,500 Welcome Bonus.

Whether you are looking for a new career or already work in healthcare through the NHS or private care, 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 doing

You’ll be working with prison transfer service users, who will be with us for 12- 22 weeks as part of their assessment and stabilisation of acute mental health episode, where you’ll have a positive impact on their lives.

With a large supportive team that works well together in a higher end of risk environment, every service user will be fully risk assessed with sufficient staff available to provide the appropriate level of supervised care and a high focused on safety and security.

As a Healthcare Assistant you will ensure service users receive high-quality care, while supporting your colleagues and promoting good teamwork.

The shift patterns include working nights and weekends, 12 hours a day, 3-4 days a week.

Where you will be working

Location: Westpark 26, Chelston, Wellington, Somerset, TA21 9FF

Join the multidisciplinary team at Wellesley Hospital which provides care to men and women across several wards with a range of mental health conditions in a modern and purpose-built hospital with low and medium secure environments.

Wellesley Hospital is conveniently located near Wellington, close to the M5 and commutable from Taunton, Exeter, Yeovil and surrounding areas.

What you will get

A huge range of training courses and development is available that will see you grow and succeed. If you have the aspiration, capability and dedication, we can give you the support and opportunities to help you achieve your career goals.

• Annual salary of £21,547- £22,600 (Depending on experience)
• £1,500 Welcome Bonus
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package
• Wellbeing support and activities
• Flexible working opportunities available

There is 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.

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. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.