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Mental Healthcare Assistant

Employer
Priory Group
Location
Coventry, West Midlands
Salary
Up to £10.9 per hour
Closing date
17 Jun 2022

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There is no better time to get into healthcare than now!

What if you could build a career in an industry that provides full training, requires no prior experience and leaves you with a genuine sense of achievement and reward knowing that you've made a huge positive impact on someone's life?

If that sounds like you, this could just be the job for you!

Woodland View Priory Hospital are recruiting for Healthcare Assistants now! We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and passionate people to become an integral part of our healthcare team. In this role, you will become one of the first lines of support for our service users and be responsible for providing compassionate care during their time with us.


No experience in healthcare? Do not worry; At Priory, we are immensely proud of our career pathways and training. As long as you show the commitment and characteristics needed for a role in care, we will give you all the training and support you need to become a competent healthcare professional, including achieving the Care Certificate. You are not on your own and will also be working alongside our qualified nurses, allied health professionals and medical professionals who will help guide you day-to-day.

Whilst you don't need any prior healthcare experience, there are a few characteristics we are looking for to ensure your success in this role:

Resilience - This is a role working with vulnerable people who can have varying degrees of mental health difficulties or a learning disability, so there will be days when it may be challenging. This is why we have a strong team ethos throughout our services.

Excellent Communication Skills - Communicating with service users, their families, visitors and colleagues is a core element of the role. Being able to understand the needs of the patients, demonstrating kindness, compassion, reassurance and having the ability to relay information are also key for this position.

Organisational Skills -You'll need to be able to organise and detailed in your approach and be able to priorities work effectively.

Care and Compassion - Our service users require the best care and compassion we can offer, if you are a naturally caring person, this is a role for you.

Supporting diversity - No person is the same which is one of the great elements of working in this environment. With this, being attentive and making the effort to understand each person and identify areas of how we can support them is key.

Here is what we will give you:

  • A competitive salary
  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing to 30 days with length service.
  • No one really wants to work their birthday so we will give you an extra day to celebrate in whatever way you see fit!
  • Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
  • Access to Priory Apprenticeships
  • Free Parking
  • Access to our spend and save benefits platform 'Priory Perks'
  • Free meals
  • Contributory pension

Above all, we provide a supportive working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.


If you want Healthcare to be a 'vocation for life' The Priory Group will help you there.

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Nursing at Priory Healthcare

At Priory Healthcare, we’re passionately committed to making a real and lasting difference for everyone we support. But that’s just the start. As a recognised leader in the healthcare sector, we’re equally passionate about harnessing the potential of everyone on our team – including our rapidly growing community of RMN’s.

So join us and we can promise you one of the most dynamic and supportive career environments in the sector.

We are already the largest mental health provider in Europe and treat upwards of 80 conditions in over 275 facilities around the country. But look beyond our size and you will also discover an unrivalled reputation for providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivery value for our service users.

What does this mean for you? More than you might imagine.

For a start, there’s greater clinical diversity here than anywhere outside of the NHS. This offers you the chance to develop your career at the forefront of nursing practice in one or  more of our six specialist areas – Acute Mental Healthcare, Secure, Rehabilitation and Complex Care, Eating Disorders and Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

You will enjoy excellent learning and development resources, too. In addition to benefiting from our award-winning e-learning programme, your structured career progression could include supported study for specialist diplomas, preceptorships if you are newly qualified, a range of other externally accredited courses, the option of becoming a trainer on your own site, and much more besides.

Our working environment and culture are also exceptional. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team of doctors, psychiatrists, therapists and other health care specialists. We don’t just work together. We listen to each other, share ideas, explore new ways of doing things and actively pursue innovation and excellence is all that we do. So while the work can be incredibly demanding, you will never lack the support, collaboration and encouragement you need to perform to your best and achieve your true potential.

As for recognition and rewards, they are everything you would expect from an organisation that values your expertise and commitment. And your career prospects? Well, the sheer scope and scale of our behavioural care services – and the pace of our development as a business – means that you can grow as far and fast as we do.

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