Healthcare Assistant Nights - Preston, United Kingdom - The Disabilities Trust

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Healthcare Assistant NIGHTS

Lancashire
£11.44 per hour + 30% enhancement for unsociable hours (8pm - 6am)

31.5 hours per week 3 nights over 7


Why join us?


Brainkind Neurological Care Centre Lancashire is a purpose-built, state of the art neurological care centre based in Fulwood, Preston, providing specialist neurological rehabilitation care and support.

We are looking for experienced Healthcare Assistants to join our dedicated team.


About us:

At Brainkind Neurological Care Centre Lancashire, we provide the care people need to optimise their health and wellbeing, maximise their independence and support their emotional and social needs.

We provide specialist neurological care, rehabilitation and support tailored to the individual needs of people with a range of neurological conditions.


Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support and help improve the lives of people with a neurological condition or brain injury.


About the role:


  • Working with other team members to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical and functional recovery. Ensuring that rehabilitation goals, strategies and procedures are implemented and reinforced
  • Monitoring the physical and emotional wellbeing of all clients in order to be aware of changes and to alert senior colleagues as necessary. Assisting in maintaining morale of clients by communication and contact achieved by talking and working with them
  • Ensuring accurate reporting and documentation
  • Reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the individuals' experience. Challenging practice as appropriate and supporting junior and new staff
  • Promoting choice in the delivery of care and support. Enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by the individual and/or their representatives.
  • Supporting service users to have their views and experiences taken into account in the way the service is provided and delivered
  • Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks

About you:


  • Proven experience of working within a team
  • Care delivery experience
  • Good communication skills
  • Numeracy and literacy skills

Enhancements:

8.00 pm to 6.00 am (nights) 30%


Rewards
You can look forward to excellent benefits, including handy discounts on many brands and services.

  • 35 days' holiday including bank holidays.
  • Pension Contributions
  • Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and instore.
  • Perkbox
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Eye voucher scheme
  • Long service and staff awards
  • Free uniform
  • Free Parking
Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation.

It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.


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