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- Prif leoliad
- Mental Health
- Gradd
- Band 3
- Contract
- Parhaol: Substantive
- Oriau
- Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos (Shift patterns include: Long Days (07:00-19:30) and Nights (19:00-07:30) including Weekends and Bank Holidays)
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 342-SS133-0824
- Cyflogwr
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- Specialised Mother & Baby IP Unit
- Tref
- Bristol
- Cyflog
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum (pending pay award)
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 27/08/2024 23:59
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Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker - New Horizon MBU, Southmead Hospital
Band 3
Trosolwg o'r swydd
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker to join the team at New Horizons Mother and Baby Unit located on the Southmead Hospital site in North Bristol.
New Horizon MBU is a 4 bedded stand alone inpatient unit that provides specialist care and treatment for women suffering from perinatal mental health difficulties. The unit supports women from 32 weeks antenatal and postnatal women with babies up to one year of age. New Horizon MBU particularly supports mothers who are having issues relating to attachment and bonding with their baby and when the mother’s mental health is effecting their ability to care for their baby.
Care is provided over a 24 hour period and clinical team members work rotational shift patterns including days, nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Sometimes the role will be tough, you will see and be involved in some difficult things involving our patients. However here at New Horizon MBU we are a very close, compassionate and supportive team that thrive on looking after one another so we can deliver excellent care to the women on our unit.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
Clinical work with service users with a range of acute and enduring mental health illnesses, with the main focus of promoting bonding and attachment with their baby. You will be expected to build therapeutic relationships with service users and their loved ones, supporting them through their transition into hospital and throughout. On New Horizons we work closely with children's social care team therefore you will need to safeguarding and promote the welfare of children and young people.
Support complex needs and vulnerable families alongside side the team and other health professionals. Plan and implement safety plans created with patients and their loved ones. Support activities of daily living alongside a child, such as supporting daily walks, home leave, cooking, baby activities.
You will be expected to complete all statutory and mandatory trainings identified by our trust including the prevention and management of violence and aggression, basic resuscitation and paediatric basic resuscitation.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
1. To deliver high quality care and recovery interventions for
service users within designated clinical areas, in collaboration
with, and under the indirect supervision of, registered care
staff. These may include:
Supporting individuals with fluids and nutrition, physical
wellbeing, and personal care. Assisting service users with financial or accommodation issues.
Escorting or accompanying service users for planned periods of leave on hospital grounds and in the community facilitating
social inclusion.
Encouraging service users to talk about their experiences in
one-to-one or group discussions.
2. To help maintain a clean, well-organised, safe and therapeutic
environment that meets the needs of service users, carers and
colleagues, and to support registered care staff to perform
standardised environmental assessments to monitor and
improve the care setting.
3. To deliver psychosocially-informed one to one and group
interventions aiming to positively impact service users’
cognitive and emotional wellbeing.
4. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. To assume lead or
link roles on core practice initiatives and priorities (e.g. Essence
of Care, Safewards and carer engagement) under the
supervision of registered staff. To integrate areas of personal
interest with clinical practice to enhance the diversity of the
team’s provision of care.
5. To practise planned care, and to directly participate in the
development of recovery-focused interventions that address
service users’ and carers’ needs and preferences. To proactively
review, record and assess the on-going impacts of such
interventions.
6. To participate in the on-going care planning, CPA and risk
assessment processes in collaboration with service users, their
carers, and other members of the care team and to contribute to all aspects of clinical record keeping.
7. To maintain a basic working understanding of both the Mental
Health Act (1983) and Mental Capacity Act (2005), and any
other relevant legislation, as required by mandatory and
statutory training (MaST).
8. To adhere to AWP’s Code of Conduct for unregistered
practitioners; promoting and embedding it through the delivery
of peer support and supervision to junior, temporary and newly
appointed Health Care Support Workers.
9. To observe and record interactions with service users and
carers both verbally and in writing via clinical records and staff
handovers.
10. To deliver a wide range of fundamental care interventions
using evidence based clinical tools, to monitor and improve
physical health and personal wellbeing and to model a high
standard of dignity, respect and candour.
11. To engage in reflective practice to maintain and promote
ongoing clinical practice.
12. To promote and enhance a positive learning culture, being
proactive in the induction, orientation and support of junior,
temporary and newly appointed Health Care Support Workers,
seeking to embed core care values into practice.
As part of your role your clinical opinion, observations and knowledge will be valued as part of ongoing assessment and treatment for our patients, therefore we ensure all staff receive the relevant and most up to date perinatal mental health training.
You can expect to receive monthly line management supervision from a qualified member of the team and clinical supervision. We also have team formulation, reflective practice and continuing practice development (CPD) embedded in the practice of the ward.
Manyleb y person
Education & Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Possession of, or the ability and willingness to work towards, an appropriate Level 3 vocational qualification (e.g. Level 3 Diploma in Mental Health or Health and Social Care)
- Experience of working as a healthcare support worker in a clinical team.
- Knowledge of, and experience of working with, a range of mental health issues
- Ability to communicate in written and verbal English to a high standard, and basic numeracy skills.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Training in counselling or psychosocial interventions
Gofynion ymgeisio
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
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Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Sabrina Kennedy
- Teitl y swydd
- Ward Manager (RMN)
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0117 4147270
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