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Healthcare Assistant - Interview Day
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Job Description
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• Annual salary of £26,676.50 (inclusive of a £1,619 Location Allowance) • The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off! • Free meals and parking • Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance. • Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals. • Pension contribution to secure your future. • Life Assurance for added peace of mind. • Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time
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• Annual salary of £26,676.50 (inclusive of a £1,619 Location Allowance) • The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off! • Free meals and parking • Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance. • Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals. • Pension contribution to secure your future. • Life Assurance for added peace of mind. • Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time
- No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is preferred.
- No specific qualifications are required, but experience as a Healthcare Assistant in the UK is preferred.
Job summary
This is an opportunity to join Elysium Healthcare as a Healthcare Assistant at their Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham. Elysium Healthcare is an established and stable company with over 8,000 employees, providing a range of mental health, neurological, learning disabilities, and autism services across England and Wales. The role involves providing compassionate and supportive care to individuals with mental health conditions, as part of a friendly and inclusive team.
Main duties of the job
As a Healthcare Assistant, you will be responsible for assisting with ward rounds, analyzing behaviors, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include helping with personal hygiene. It is a challenging but rewarding role, where you can make a positive difference in the lives of the individuals you support. The shift pattern is 12.5 hours a day, 3-4 days a week, including nights and weekends.
About us
Elysium Healthcare is part of the global Ramsay Health Care network, which employs over 86,000 people across 10 countries. Elysium Healthcare is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment, and follows safer recruitment practices for all appointments.
Details
Date posted
25 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£26,676.50 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
1331863904
Job locations
Elysium Healthcare
Thatcham
RG19 8ET
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Join us for our interview day on Thursday 17th July 2025!
Are you a naturally caring experienced Healthcare Assistant in the UK, looking for your career to be fulfilling, where you’re valued, recognised and supported?
If you want to make a positive difference to the lives of others and change lives for the better, then join the team at Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham as a Healthcare Assistant and experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like.
You’ll have access to a range of training and development options to help you achieve your career aspirations, while working as part of a supportive and friendly team in a culture built on kindness and teamwork.
What you will be doing
You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with a range of mental health conditions, using your knowledge and skills to help people along their recover pathway towards leading a valued and fulfilled life.
Your day-to-day will include ward rounds, analysing behaviours and adapting care accordingly with colleagues, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene.
It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of your involvement, knowing that you’ve made someone’s life better.
The shift pattern is 12.5 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including nights and weekends.
Where you will be working
Location: Thornford Park, Crookham Hill, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG19 8ET
You will be working at Thornford Park, a 130 bedded independent hospital which supports service users that require medium and low secure Forensic Mental Health Services. In addition to these services there is also a PICU Mental Health Service.
The service provides a seamless internal care pathway supporting and empowering people in their recovery and rehabilitation. Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will provide personalised assessment and treatment programmes for males with mental illness/complex care needs as well as those with personality disorder, and females and males in a PICU service.
What you will get
There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers and much more.
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
Job responsibilities
Join us for our interview day on Thursday 17th July 2025!
Are you a naturally caring experienced Healthcare Assistant in the UK, looking for your career to be fulfilling, where you’re valued, recognised and supported?
If you want to make a positive difference to the lives of others and change lives for the better, then join the team at Thornford Park Hospital in Thatcham as a Healthcare Assistant and experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like.
You’ll have access to a range of training and development options to help you achieve your career aspirations, while working as part of a supportive and friendly team in a culture built on kindness and teamwork.
What you will be doing
You will join an inclusive and supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with a range of mental health conditions, using your knowledge and skills to help people along their recover pathway towards leading a valued and fulfilled life.
Your day-to-day will include ward rounds, analysing behaviours and adapting care accordingly with colleagues, updating patient records, and providing overall care and support, which may include assisting with personal hygiene.
It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of your involvement, knowing that you’ve made someone’s life better.
The shift pattern is 12.5 hours a day, 3-4 days a week including nights and weekends.
Where you will be working
Location: Thornford Park, Crookham Hill, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG19 8ET
You will be working at Thornford Park, a 130 bedded independent hospital which supports service users that require medium and low secure Forensic Mental Health Services. In addition to these services there is also a PICU Mental Health Service.
The service provides a seamless internal care pathway supporting and empowering people in their recovery and rehabilitation. Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will provide personalised assessment and treatment programmes for males with mental illness/complex care needs as well as those with personality disorder, and females and males in a PICU service.
What you will get
There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers and much more.
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Elysium Healthcare
Address
Elysium Healthcare
Thatcham
RG19 8ET
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Elysium Healthcare
Address
Elysium Healthcare
Thatcham
RG19 8ET
Employer's website
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About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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