Community Mental Healthcare Assistant

3 weeks ago


Launceston, United Kingdom Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**Community Mental Healthcare Assistant - Valency DOPMH Team**:
**Band 3**:
**Main area**
- Dementia and Older People's Mental Health
- **Grade**
- Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Hours 9am to 5pm)
- **Job ref**
- 201-24-248-A**Site**
- Elfordleigh Resource Centre
- **Town**
- Launceston
- **Salary**
- £22,816 - £24,336 Pro Rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 23/05/2024 23:59
- **Interview date**
- 31/05/2024Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic and enthusiastic individual to work with people who have a dementia diagnosis or a functional mental health illness. The Healthcare Assistant (HCA) role is part of the Dementia & Older People Mental Health (DOPMH) team. The successful applicant will work alongside the MDT team, which comprises of the Consultant Psychiatrist, CPN's, Memory Assessment Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Dementia Liaison Nurse, Psychologist and Primary Care Dementia team.

Supporting patients and their carers in the community, either in their home or in a care placement setting. Delivering time specific care planned contact, alongside the patients care co-ordinator.

**Proposed interview date: 31 May 2024**

**Main duties of the job**:
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of service users with a diagnosis of dementia, or over age 75, with functional mental health diagnosis.

The post holder will provide a range of services including practical and emotional support to individual service users as indicated by the individual care plans provided by their care co-ordinators.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Just over 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
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