Healthcare Assistant - Basildon, Essex (36371)

Location: Basildon, Essex

Salary: £24,874 plus enhancements (Includes £1250 Essex Allowance)

Hours: Full time (37.5 hours)

We are St Andrew’s a mental health Charity which inspires Hope. We working together with a number of organisations to transform the lives of people with complex mental health needs. We provide specialist mental healthcare and deliver a range of inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve lives.

Our vision for the future is a society in which everyone living with mental health need is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

Come join us. Let's transform lives together.

The Role

Healthcare Assistants work in our Clinical areas, supporting staff teams in delivering and focusing on our Patients and their rehabilitation, daily activities and care. The role can be quite active and we would therefore require you to be able to cope with the demands of an active post.  To join St Andrew’s as a Healthcare Assistant we are looking for the following:

Essential Criteria:

• Experience within healthcare or care work
• Good standard of literacy, numeracy and IT skills
• Working within a mental healthcare setting will require resilience as it can be a challenging role
• Undertake personal care (washing, toileting, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills
• To be able to follow instructions and procedures
• To be able to work in a team but use your own initiative
• Observational skills

Desirable Criteria:

• A qualification in healthcare
• Experience working in a mental health setting 

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.
 
We offer an excellent benefits package including:

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

Closing: Sunday 5th January 2025

*Please note we may close this advert early if we receive the required amount of applications before the closing date*