Senior Healthcare Assistant

Job summary

Join us and make a positive impact on the lives of your patients!

As a Senior Health Care Assistant at York, you'll be crucial in supporting the nursing staff to provide top-notch patient care. Your responsibilities include overseeing shift operations, guiding junior colleagues, and ensuring all tasks are completed efficiently. By following best practices like NICE guidelines, you'll help create care plans that truly make a difference in our patients' lives.

Some of the key responsibilities are as follows:

• Adhere to NICE guidelines;

• Build therapeutic relationships with patients;

• Conduct regular patient assessments;

• Assist during meal times and support feeding methods;

• Perform clinical tasks with expertise;

• Collaborate with healthcare professionals;

• Ensure safety and report concerns;

• Understand safeguarding principles

Benefits

You will have access to a wide range of benefits which include (but not limited to):

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays, which increases with the length of service

• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

• Paid emergency leave

• Professional development opportunities so that you can build your career with us

• Contributory pension scheme with Royal London

• Enhanced Private Medical Insurance with BUPA including access to a private GP service, free screening, and the inclusion of pre-existing conditions.

• Dental Cover

• Recognition schemes for employees

• Eye care scheme with Specsavers

• Online benefits portal with high street and online shopping discounts

• Winter flu jabs

• EAP assistance on a range of topics and concerns

Our culture

Our culture of world-class medical excellence is based on our five key values:

• Accountable: Taking ownership of the things I say and do

• Caring: Treating others as I would like to be treated

• Collaborative: Working together to make a winning team

• Courageous: Being proud to be different and challenge the norm

• Determined: Seeing things through to meet and exceed expectations

Schoen Clinic York is a highly specialised Hospital for adults in the North of England. We are currently based on the ground floor of Minster Grange as an eating disorder hospital, and in September 2024 will be expanding to cover the full building with other service lines including Dementia care. We are situated just off Haxby Road which is 10 minutes’ drive from York Train Station and 4 miles from the A64.