📍 Location: Eltisley Manor
🕒 Hours: 40.25 Hours Per Week - Night Shifts Only
💰 Salary: £12.60 to £14.36 p/h + Benefits
🚗 Transport Assistance Available!
We can offer transport from the train station or help with travel arrangements from St Neots.
🧠 About You:
At least 2 years experience of support work, preferably working with people with mental health illnesses or learning disabilities along with:
- IT Skills
- An understanding of how mental health issues can affect people
- An ability to take direction and to follow detailed policies and protocols
- Good communication skills: tact, diplomacy and active listening
- Good organisational skills and time management
- Flexible and adaptable to change
- Experience of working as part of a team
💼 What You’ll Do:
- Participation in the application of care plans while ensuring interventions and observations are communicated effectively with senior members of the team.
- Assisting in the supervision of other healthcare/support staff.
- Maintaining a safe therapeutic environment, beneficial to the needs of residents, relatives and other carers.
- Promoting a positive attitude toward mental health & rehabilitation.
- To work as a support worker (sometimes known as a care assistant) for our residents, with the support of senior staff.
- To undertake aspects of care with or without direct supervision, including hosting recreational and activity groups, carrying out personal care, observations and escorting duties, such as general hospital visits.
- To ensure the safety and well-being of our service users, and to always work in a manner that promotes dignity through the adoption of person-centred care principles.
💡 Aside to your hands-on responsibilities, there is also a small amount of administration that you will soon be familiar with, these include:
- Record keeping.
- Booking your holidays.
- Edit/create care-plans.
- Publish/view your hours.
What we offer:
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🌴 Up to 28 days annual leave (including bank holidays, pro rata)
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🛍️ High street discounts via HCPA Academy
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📈 Career progression opportunities
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💷 Access to our Refer a Friend scheme – earn up to £500
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🍕 Pizza evenings
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🎓 In-house training and development
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💙 Employee Assistance Programme