Bank Healthcare Assistant - Northampton

Location: Northampton

Salary: £11.45 per hour

Hours: Zero Hour Contract - to cover shifts Monday to Friday - DAYS ONLY 

The Role

Bank 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:

• 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
• Able to flexibly support all patients groups and adaptable to any changes in ward environment 

Due to the physical requirements of this role and the support we provide to our service users, successful candidates must meet minimum requirements of physical capability, including an ability to sit, stand and kneel for a prolonged period of time as well as the ability to transition between kneeling, sitting and standing with ease.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience within healthcare or care work
• A qualification in healthcare
• Experience working in a mental health setting

About us 

St Andrew’s Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare for patients with some of the most complex mental health needs in the UK. We provide care across a number of services including  Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Brain Injury, Dementia and Huntington’s Disease, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Learning Disability and Autism, Low Secure and PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit) and Medium Secure including the Deaf Service.

We develop innovative ways to help patients recover, creating a package of care designed around each individual, their preferences and needs. We focus on physical and spiritual wellbeing as well as mental health.

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.

Please note candidates will be required to attend a pre-screen appointment, where if shortlisted you will then be required to attend an interview assessment on site. The time scale from pre-screen to interview is 14 days on average.

Closing Date: Monday 15th July 2024

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