Band 3 Healthcare Assistant - Adult Assessment Ward

Applications are invited from experienced Mental Health Healthcare Assistants, qualified to NVQ3 with a genuine committment to working with older people to join the comprehensive Mental Health service on the beautiful Island of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands.

The Unit is a 8-bedded ward, dedicated to assessment of patients over 75 presenting with a wide range of mental health conditions. Note; applicants must bea UK or Irish citizen, or UK permanent resident, no other UK visas permit employment in the Channel Islands and sponsorship is not offered.

Guernsey has adopted the AfC banding system, but have applied their own salary scale. The current Guernsey Band 3 salary is £30,4341 to £35,627 plus an annual bonus of £1,747 and higher unsocial hours enhancements; 40% evening/Saturday and 80% Sunday/BH.

The island of Guernsey is in the Channel Islands and has a population of 65,000. It has some of Britain's finest and best-kept beaches, an especially mild and sunny climate, and an offbeat, historic harbour town in St.Peter's Port, the island's capital.

This unique integrated health service delivers a diverse range of healthcare services within the hospital, and supporting people in the wider community. The Older Adult Mental Health Service has a four in-patient centres; including an assessment ward through to the later stages of an individual’s experience of dementia, as well as Community Day Services. They have recently launched their Island-wide Dementia Framework;

striving to make the island Dementia Friendly so that their older population feel valued and are treated with the dignity and respect that they so rightly deserve. All of this is reliant on the excellent calibre of Healthcare staff recruited to a very high standard.

• An experienced Mental Health, Healthcare Assistant
• At least two years
• experience in an Acute Mental Health Ward setting
• Completion of NVQ3 level in Adult Health & Social Care
• Passionate about working with older people with acute mental health presentations.
• The desire to work in a team and organisation committed to person-centred care and giving you time to care. To be a UK or Irish citizen, or UK permanent resident (sponsorship is no offered)

The benefits of working in Guernsey include:

• A higher-than-UK salary.
• An annual bonus of £1,747
• A flat rate 20% income tax.
• No Council tax or VAT
• A relocation payment of £5,000
  * and 4 years private rental allowance OR
• On-site Staff Accommodation
• A continental lifestyle, where the people are friendly, and crime is very low.

* Full T&C in relocation directive