Bank Healthcare Assistant/support Worker

3 weeks ago

Dartford, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Bank Healthcare Assistants/Support Workers - Band 3

Forensic Inpatient Directorate at Bracton Centre and Memorial Hospital

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to employ several motivated individuals to the role of Healthcare Assistants/Support Workers at Band 3 Bank (Zero contacted hours) to our Forensic Inpatient Directorate (Bracton Centre and Memorial Hospital).

We are a Trauma Informed Service, looking for dynamic and compassionate individuals. We are seeking to recruit people who are curious about the ways that adversity and traumas impact our patients’ behaviours, functioning, clinical presentations, and engagement. You will be supported to deliver high quality care to patients, in which your relational skills will help our patients to feel safe, listened to, valued, engaged, and empowered.

You will be supported to be trauma responsive, developing practices that avoid causing further harm, promote engagement and create a safe context for healing and recovery.

You will have access to multiple sources of support, including supervision, training, staff support sessions and working alongside colleagues from multiple professional disciplines (e.g., psychologists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, medics, and administrators).

Healthcare assistants/Support Workers provide hands on personalised care to service users, always under supervision, and with the support of more senior staff. You will use your skills to create safety, support emotional regulation, reframe frustrating behaviours, and reflect on your own practice.

ThisBank roleis designed to help the post holder gain clinical experience, under close and supportive supervision, and to ensure our service users and carers receive care from people with the right values. We are keen to recruit applicants who recognise the importance of fostering safety, trustworthiness & transparency, peer support, collaboration, empowerment & choice, and attending to cultural, historical & gender issues.

You will be part of a service that is focussed on re-emphasising how focus on relationships and communication keep people physically and psychologically safe within in the forensic setting, such as providing patient choice, when possible, collaboration and transparency.

As a Bank Staff in the Inpatient Directorate, you will receive supervision and training to support you in your care delivery.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

**This is strengthened by our new values**:

- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
- Working under the direct supervision and guidance of a Registered Nurse/ Senior Health Care Support Worker/ Assistant Practitioner/Nurse Associate to support the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational, and spiritual care in a recovery focused and trauma-informed way, through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
- Undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - such as physical and psychological safety, emotional and social support, nutrition, hydration, hygiene and comfort.
- Offering patient-centred care, offering choices and opportunities to empower patients whenever possible.
- Providing hands-on care to service users including undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open and non-judgmental way.
- Recognising and valuing service users as individuals, acknowledging the importance of always maintaining the service user’s respect and dignity and ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity.
- Escalating any concerns to a Registered

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