Elysium Healthcare
Healthcare Assistant
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Healthcare Assistant – Mental Health (Dunnock View, Clacton-on-Sea)
About the Role
Are you a naturally caring, experienced Healthcare Assistant (HCA) in the UK, looking for a supportive and fulfilling career where your work is valued, recognised, and encouraged?
If you want to make a positive difference to the lives of individuals affected by mental health disorders, we invite you to join Dunnock View in Clacton-on-Sea as a Healthcare Assistant.
Here, you’ll work within an inclusive, ambitious, and kind-hearted team that provides a trauma-informed care environment, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
What You’ll Bring
You’ll have practical experience in supporting individuals with mental health needs, combined with an understanding of how compassion, resilience, and empathy make a meaningful difference.
You’ll want to shape this role with your skills while being open to upping your game, forming good relationships with colleagues, and thriving in a culture that values teamwork, learning, and growth.
Responsibilities
As a Healthcare Assistant at Dunnock View, you will be a key part of a** proactive and collaborative team working to support individuals along their recovery pathway. Your day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Participation in ward rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings to analyse behaviours and adjust care plans accordingly.
- Providing personalised care to individuals with mental health conditions, including individuals who may have:
- Acute mental illness
- Psychosis or schizophrenia
- Bipolar disorder
- Personality disorders (including borderline personality disorder)
- Dual diagnosis (mental health + substance misuse)
- Experience of self-harm
- Suffered trauma and/or child abuse
- Completing accurate documentation of observations and care actions, updating patient records clearly and concisely.
- Assisting with personal care and hygiene, maintaining dignity, independence and safety.
- Supporting individuals in their daily living routines, ensuring their environment is stable and conducive to recovery.
- Conducting prompts and influencing positive behaviours to support consistent routines and aid recovery.
- Maintaining rigorous safety protocols, ensuring a secure physical and emotional environment for individuals.
- Acknowledging resilience through challenge and change, ensuring diligent attention to mental states and needs of service users.
- Building warm therapeutic relationships, grounded in a trauma-informed approach.
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The role requires a high level of compassion, resilience, and a positive, proactive attitude. While it can be challenging at times, seeing individuals make progress and improve due to your care makes this role deeply rewarding.
Shift Pattern
- 12.5-hour shifts, working 3-4 days per week (including evenings, nights, weekends).
- 37.5 hour weekly contract.
Location
Dunnock View, Tendring, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, CO16 0BX
About Dunnock View:
- A 42-bed service offering specialist mental health care for men and women recovering from complex mental health challenges.
- Part of Elysium Healthcare, it employs both psychiatrists, therapists, and nursing staff within this supportive environment.
- Focuses on the trauma-informed care model, prioritising length of stay to enable service users to reintegrate as safely and quickly as possible into least-restrictive community environments.
- Serves individuals presenting with psychiatric crises, antisocial behaviours, or relapse episodes that obstruct recovery.
Requirements
We welcome experienced Health Care Assistants with demonstrated experience and professionalism, particularly relevant experience in mental health or substance misuse. Whilst we do not currently mandate a formal qualification, we encourage candidates with any of the following:
- Experience working within mental health settings – success in fostering therapeutic relationships will be evident in candidates we choose to progress.
- Passion for personal growth and professional development
- A willingness to learn, embrace feedback and care within a collaborative private and public partnership.
- Self-champions with the initiative to seek training and enhance competencies.
- Ability to work flexibly and adhere to a varied shift pattern including evenings, nights, weekends.
What You’ll Get
Here at Elysium Healthcare, we invite you to share our vision and prioritise your own development.
As a valued member of our team, you’ll be supported with a comprehensive benefits package designed to nurture your well-being, professional growth, and long-term success. Some perks include:
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- Annual base salary of £25,058 with competitive progression potential.
- 33 days paid annual leave per year (which includes bank holidays), plus personal leave (birthday time off) and grants additional paid annual leave via a selection window.
- Excellent career development and training to assist you with executing excellence and achieving your long-term career goals.
- Ely-Vate rewards platform featuring exclusive offers, discounts, and a wellbeing hub.
- Continuing Professional Development – including access to e-learning and training opportunities tailored to your role.
- Wage advance flexibility via the Stream platform for instant access to earned wages.
- Wellbeing support, access to financial advice platforms, and multiple work-life balance initiatives.
- 24/7 GP services and second medical opinion to support your health.
- Life insurance as an added peace of mind.
- Free meals and off-site parking.
- Employee Assistance Programme to access confidential counselling support.
You'll also work within Ramsay Healthcare, a global leader committed to "changing lives through the power of health and wellness" across 82 services across England and Wales.
About Your Next Employer
We are part of Ramsay Healthcare, a global healthcare network with over 86,000 employees.
- Other branches include specialist mental health care, neurological, learning disabilities & autism, and children’s education.
- Adopts safer recruitment practices for all roles, including disability confident recruitment.
- Committed to inclusive practices, making sure every team member has the chance to thrive.
- Disability Confident Leader since 2011, valuing the inclusion of neurodiverse individuals.
- Currently supporting British Sign Language interpretation and cultural diversity awareness initiatives.
- Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility as we passionately believe ‘Every now and then...’ (oleophilalphabet -- safeguarding is a continuous priority).
Joining Dunnock View allows you to contribute to recovery, adhere to sector best practices, have a fulfilling caregiving career. Come be part of a team passionate about changing lives!
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