Healthcare Assistant in a High Dependency Unit
| Posting date: | 28 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £12.25 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 August 2025 |
| Location: | B12 0HG |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Options for Care |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
We have a fantastic opportunity for a care assistant to join our new High Dependency unit as a Healthcare Assistant working 157.5 hours every 4 weeks. You will need to be flexible to work days, nights, weekends and bank holidays.
The individual will assist in the assessment, planning implementing and evaluate the care of our service users under the guidance of qualified nurses.
You will assisting in supporting service users to engage in social/therapeutic activities, promotion of effective relationships which enable and address spirituality, diversity and equality in accordance to our organisations mission, values, vision and legislation.
Main duties and responsibilities
⚫Provide advice and instruction to patients to explain any procedures being undertaken
⚫ To follow individual care and therapeutic programmes for patients under the supervision of, a registered nurse.
⚫ To support care plans – help patients reach recovery goals, maintain ADL’s, attend appointments and develop coping strategies.
⚫Support registered nurses in physical health monitoring patients vital signs, drug or alcohol screening and promoting of wellbeing.( When appropriately trained)
⚫To be supportive and communicative with patients and colleagues.
⚫ Attend and participate in staff meetings.
⚫ To ensure at all times patients are treated with care and compassion
⚫ To ensure that privacy and dignity of patients is respected and maintained at all times.
⚫ Report any change or deviation from planned care package to registered nurses.
⚫ To be informed and aware of the patients clinical condition and individual circumstances to ensure the care and comfort of service users.
⚫ To provide patients with personal care.
⚫ To support in maintaining and promoting health and safety within the work environment.
⚫ Support and promote patient with management of their Section 17 leave of Mental health Act.
⚫ To assist in the maintenance of ward cleanliness and tidiness and adhere to infection control policy and procedures at all times.
What we’d like from you:
Effective communication
Team working
Willingness to learn.
High sense of responsibility
A positive attitude and passion for high quality care and support
What we’d like to give you.
• Competitive salary – in excess of NHS agenda for change pay scales
• Generous enhancements for night and weekend work
• ‘Recommend a friend’ payments of up to £500
• payable on successful completion of applicants’ probationary period Health & Wellbeing
• Up to 30 day’s annual leave, plus bank holidays (based on length of service)
• Corporate health cash plan providing cash back for day-to-day healthcare costs such as dental, optical and health screening Professional/Clinical
• Targeted learning and development
• Comprehensive and ongoing professional training and development supported by Options for Care Learning and Development Co-ordinator
• Structured clinical supervision/reflective practice
• Management supervision/appraisal process
Others
• Positive working environment in a service identified by the CQC as Good
• Full and supportive multi-disciplinary team
• Funded DBS
• Additional leave after one years service for your birthday
• Annual pay reviews
About us
Options for Care provides mental health recovery services in Birmingham. Our primary objective is to empower service users and help them realise their full potential through progressive improvements in their quality of life and a steady progression towards recovery, culminating in successful discharge.
We are proud to share our unwavering commitment to our mission, vision, and values.
Mission
Realising Potential
Vision
We offer best-practice interventions to enable personal recovery and well-being.
Values
• The individual is at the heart of everything we do.
• We inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.
• We deliver and continuously evaluate high-quality service whilst respecting differences, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.
To apply for this role or for more information please email hr@optionsforcare.net
Please note we are unable to offer sponsorships for this role so you will be required to have the valid right to work.
The individual will assist in the assessment, planning implementing and evaluate the care of our service users under the guidance of qualified nurses.
You will assisting in supporting service users to engage in social/therapeutic activities, promotion of effective relationships which enable and address spirituality, diversity and equality in accordance to our organisations mission, values, vision and legislation.
Main duties and responsibilities
⚫Provide advice and instruction to patients to explain any procedures being undertaken
⚫ To follow individual care and therapeutic programmes for patients under the supervision of, a registered nurse.
⚫ To support care plans – help patients reach recovery goals, maintain ADL’s, attend appointments and develop coping strategies.
⚫Support registered nurses in physical health monitoring patients vital signs, drug or alcohol screening and promoting of wellbeing.( When appropriately trained)
⚫To be supportive and communicative with patients and colleagues.
⚫ Attend and participate in staff meetings.
⚫ To ensure at all times patients are treated with care and compassion
⚫ To ensure that privacy and dignity of patients is respected and maintained at all times.
⚫ Report any change or deviation from planned care package to registered nurses.
⚫ To be informed and aware of the patients clinical condition and individual circumstances to ensure the care and comfort of service users.
⚫ To provide patients with personal care.
⚫ To support in maintaining and promoting health and safety within the work environment.
⚫ Support and promote patient with management of their Section 17 leave of Mental health Act.
⚫ To assist in the maintenance of ward cleanliness and tidiness and adhere to infection control policy and procedures at all times.
What we’d like from you:
Effective communication
Team working
Willingness to learn.
High sense of responsibility
A positive attitude and passion for high quality care and support
What we’d like to give you.
• Competitive salary – in excess of NHS agenda for change pay scales
• Generous enhancements for night and weekend work
• ‘Recommend a friend’ payments of up to £500
• payable on successful completion of applicants’ probationary period Health & Wellbeing
• Up to 30 day’s annual leave, plus bank holidays (based on length of service)
• Corporate health cash plan providing cash back for day-to-day healthcare costs such as dental, optical and health screening Professional/Clinical
• Targeted learning and development
• Comprehensive and ongoing professional training and development supported by Options for Care Learning and Development Co-ordinator
• Structured clinical supervision/reflective practice
• Management supervision/appraisal process
Others
• Positive working environment in a service identified by the CQC as Good
• Full and supportive multi-disciplinary team
• Funded DBS
• Additional leave after one years service for your birthday
• Annual pay reviews
About us
Options for Care provides mental health recovery services in Birmingham. Our primary objective is to empower service users and help them realise their full potential through progressive improvements in their quality of life and a steady progression towards recovery, culminating in successful discharge.
We are proud to share our unwavering commitment to our mission, vision, and values.
Mission
Realising Potential
Vision
We offer best-practice interventions to enable personal recovery and well-being.
Values
• The individual is at the heart of everything we do.
• We inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.
• We deliver and continuously evaluate high-quality service whilst respecting differences, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.
To apply for this role or for more information please email hr@optionsforcare.net
Please note we are unable to offer sponsorships for this role so you will be required to have the valid right to work.