Senior Healthcare Assistant, Community Services - Nottinghamshire

Senior Healthcare Assistant, Winslow

Community Services, Nottinghamshire

Salary: From £24,360 plus enhancements

Hours: 37.5 – Full time

Winslow was developed to provide enhanced care for individuals with complex presentations and behaviours that may challenge, who are transitioning away from secure hospital care to a community setting. It comprises six self-contained residential apartments offering independent living within a community-based environment. With an emphasis on sustainable living and vocational skills development, our aim is to enable each service user to transition to successful community living.

Your role

As a senior Health Care Assistant, you will provide support that positively impacts the health and wellbeing of service users within the Division. You will be a highly visible and important front line member of staff within an established team of professionals including: Registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists*, Psychologists*, Responsible Clinician* and Social Workers*. Throughout the service user’s journey, you will provide a high standard of care, working in line with the individuals treatment programme.

*community professionals not on site

In addition to this you will support and mentor other HCA’s and be aligned to additional areas of practice as champions or representatives. You will play a key role in designated areas to support and improve practice on the wards.

Your profile

We are looking to recruit senior HCA’s who are:

• Passionate
• Reliable
• Motivated
• Interested in making a positive difference
• Resilient
• Supportive of others
• Responsible and committed
• Able to follow instructions and procedures
• Able to work in a team but use your own initiative

You'll also need:

• Communication and listening skills
• Organisational skills
• Observational skills

Rewards
We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Pension
• Sickness policy on par with the NHS
• Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes
• 35 days annual leave, increasing to 41 after 10 years' service (including bank holiday hours)
• Life cover
• Car lease scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Healthcare cash plan
• Free parking
• Paid DBS application
• Access to free vocational qualifications

There is the opportunity for you to apply to our Aspire Programme, a nursing bursary programme, which could support you while training to be a qualified nurse. Each year we provide the financial and development support for 20 of our employees to gain a Nursing Degree