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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.