Healthcare Assistant / Trainee

Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services is seeking diverse, dynamic, and enthusiastic individuals to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the recovery, rehabilitation, and empowerment of our service users. We provide specialist care for adults with mental health disorders, learning disabilities, or autism delivering individualised, comprehensive care packages within both Medium and Low Secure inpatient settings alongside wider teams. As part of your role, you may be required to work across any of our care pathways, supporting both male and female service users. This offers a varied, rewarding experience while developing a broad skill set within secure care., This is an exciting and challenging role and will afford the opportunity to work as part of a supportive team that is focused on delivering high standards of care through evidenced based practice. We will support you by offering regular supervision, training opportunities and encourage your development and role within this team on the delivery of Patient Centred Care, support for carers and evidence based practice, working in a whole systems approach with our partner agencies. Main Duties of the role is supporting the wards in delivering excellent patient care and assisting the Nurse in Charge in completing nursing tasks / jobs and care rounds / observations.

We are looking for motivated, experienced and flexible working colleagues to support our inpatient service

• Able to work in accordance with the Staff Compact andTrust Values and Behaviours.
• Compassionate in meeting the needs of vulnerablepeople and their families and carers.
• Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of ateam.
• Committed to continual quality and service improvement.
• Self awareness and committed to continual personaldevelopment.
  
  At Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV), you can expect exceptional training, development, and career progression opportunities supported through our strong partnerships with local training providers.
Our commitment to developing our workforce is strengthened by the Trust's Talent Management and Workforce Development Team, who support colleagues in planning their future career pathways. Whether you are aspiring to leadership and management roles or looking to advance within clinical practice, TEWV provides access to structured development programmes designed to help you excel. Our service ethos is centred around collaborative, person-centred care. We work closely with service users and carers throughout assessment, treatment, intervention planning and rehabilitation. This ensures a holistic, recovery-focused approach, enabling us to tailor care that truly meets individual needs.

As a valued member of our team, you will have access to a wide range of staff benefits, including:
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Extensive training & development opportunities
• Flexible working options
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Health & Wellbeing support
• Car lease scheme
• Free onsite gym access
• Free parking
• RN & HCA Council membership
• Think On coaching opportunities
• Quality Improvement (QI) training
• ...and many more