Job summary
- Main area
- Healthcare Support Workers
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 274-8919-OA-I
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Witham Court
- Town
- North Hykeham
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Healthcare Support Worker
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
Are you seeking an opportunity to join a forward thinking Trust, with great career opportunities, and excellent training, where you can be challenged but rewarded and provide the standard of care to really make a difference every day – If the answer is yes, we want you to join our team.
We are seeking Healthcare support workers , those who really want to ‘make a difference’, with the Trust values at the core of patient care.
We are looking for a keen and enthusiastic person to become part of our friendly and supportive teams in Witham Court for Functional and Dementia Units within the Older Adults and Frailty Division .
Main duties of the job
Implementation of care plans and care packages to service users experiencing severe mental illness and / or mental health problems.
Participate in the development, implementation and maintenance of high quality care through involvement in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care.
Supporting the service user, their carers and the wider professional team.
Actively promoting a caring attitude at all times, treating patients / service users with dignity and respect
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work within the policies, protocols and clinical procedures of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust and to promote competent working practice within an integrated multi-disciplinary team.
To liaise with the nurses, and carry out assigned duties as a member of the multi- disciplinary mental health team.
To be prepared to work on own initiative as necessary and report to the Nurses.
Promote equality for all patients and understand their health needs.
Demonstrate an awareness of service user and carer perspectives on the provision of treatment and continuing care.
Participate regularly in clinical supervision sessions.
Liaise with representatives from associated voluntary and statutory organisations and facilitate good communication processes.
Attend in-service training and other study / refresher days to meet individual, statutory and service needs.
Participate in performance reviews.
To work with service users to promote independence, maximising daily living skills.
Assist in maintaining general and specific patient observations under the supervision of registered nursing staff.
Facilitate and participate in recreational and physical activities in the provision of health and social care to service users.
Demonstrate an understanding of the responsibilities in relation to patients’ property and valuables, respecting cultural values.
Always act in a manner as to promote and safeguard the interests and well-being of patients.
Actively promote a responsible caring attitude at all times, treating all patients with dignity and respect.
Always act in a manner that ensures no patient is the subject of any form of abuse.
To report any incident which does not comply with Trust policy regarding incident reporting.
Participate in the escorting of patients as per the Unit procedures.
Accompany patients and participate, as needed, in recreational activities.
Maintain good order and cleanliness on the Unit.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards resourced by LPFT.
- NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent.
- NVQ level 3 in Promoting Independence or equivalent or working towards achievement.
Desirable criteria
- Certificate in Community Mental Health ECDL
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous relevant experience working with people with mental health problems at a HCSW grade or equivalent within a health and social care setting.
Desirable criteria
- Voluntary or working capacity with mental health service or equivalent
Skills
Essential criteria
- A patient and empathic approach.
- Effective communication with service user, other memebers of the team and outside agenies.
- Clear accurate clinical note keeping.
- Skills related to Physical healthcare intervations such as urine analysis, phlebotomy,TPR and BP etc, recording findings and informing supervising nurse of results.
- IT skills.
- De-escalation Skills.
- Planning and organisation skills.
Desirable criteria
- Immediate life support Venepuncture
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ken Mbonzongwana
- Job title
- Ward Manager Langworth ward
- Email address
- [email protected]
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