Job summary
- Main area
- Older Adult Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 342-WTS209-0824
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Fountain Way
- Town
- Salisbury
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/09/2024 23:59
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Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker - Fountain Way, Salisbury
Band 3
Job overview
A great opportunity at Fountain Way Hospital, Salisbury has arrived; we are currently looking to recruit Health Care Support Worker staff into Band 3 position for Amblescroft North.
Amblescroft North is a 20 bedded mixed gender in-patient unit that cares for individuals experiencing mental illness of a functional nature predominantly over the age of 65 years; these illnesses range from psychosis to mood disorders to depression.
Sponsorship
If you are a candidate wishing to apply, and you would require a skilled worker sponsorship, you can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the role by assessing your circumstances against the current criteria on the Government website below.
Main duties of the job
This is an active, enjoyable and rewarding Band 3 Health Care Support Worker role, applying person centred assessment for people experiencing changes in needs due to their illness. Working alongside colleagues from Medicine, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Social Care, you will be developing a culture that puts the person’s needs at the forefront of their care. All applicants will need to have a demonstrable interest in caring for and supporting recovery in the older person with a functional mental health need.
Successful candidates will be required to complete the NHS Care Certificate if not completed already, alongside all statutory and mandatory training.
Working for our organisation
All staff within Amblescroft North are part of a respectful, flexible, hard-working, welcoming and collaborative team; we will expect successful applicants to buy into that philosophy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- 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.
· 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.
· To deliver psychosocially-informed one to one and group interventions aiming to positively impact service users’ cognitive and emotional wellbeing.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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).
· 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.
· To observe and record interactions with service users and carers both verbally and in writing via clinical records and staff handovers.
· 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.
· To engage in reflective practice to maintain and promote ongoing clinical practice.
· 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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 2 in Health Care or equivalent qualification/experience
- Care Certificate or working towards completion
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communication using both writing and verbal skills
- IT literate
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of the complexities and needs of individuals with functional mental illness
- Minimum 2-3 years experience of working with older adults
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
- Sarah Harding
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01722 820198
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