Mental Health Support Worker

6 days ago


Tameside, United Kingdom NHS Professionals Full time

**Job Title and Grade**: Mental Health Care Support Worker Band 2

**Location/Trust**: Greater Manchester

**Pay Rates**:£9.57-£19.58 plus Holiday Pay

**Care Support Nursing Days Only**

If you’re looking to enhance your skillset, gain more experience or simply increase your earnings, working flexibly through NHS Professionals could be your solution.

Our requirements are that you will have a minimum of 6 months experience within the last 2 years as either Mental Health Care Support Work in the UK (Private or NHS) hospital / UK Prison or specialist Mental Health Care Home.

You **MUST** be PMVA or equivalent restraint training with valid in date certification

Qualifications **Essential**:

- NVQ Level 2 or above or Btec Diploma in Health and Social Care or Healthcare Support services.
- Completed Care Certificate

**We are supporting a large Mental Health Trust in the Manchester area**

They provide mental health and learning disability services to people across 200 distinct locations across five boroughs:

- Bury,
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Tameside and Glossop
- Stockport

Areas of work available:

- Working age adult wards
- Older mental Health wards
- Forensics/ Secure units
- A&E Liaison
- CAMH wards and Secure units
- Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit

**The Role**
- To listen and talk to patients and their carers’ and develop boundaried therapeutic relationships.
- To undertake and accurately document observations and nursing care in line with Trust Policy.
- To ensure effective communication, either verbal or written, amongst the team, reporting any change or unusual occurrence in an individuals’ behaviour or condition.
- To accurately report and feedback any concerns.
- To understand the importance of, and maintain the need for confidentiality in all patient matters.
- To participate in the maintenance of a clean, tidy and safe environment.
- To value diversity and promote equality of opportunity for all and to ensure individuals are treated fairly.
- To carry out duties as allocated by a senior nurse.
- Attend to patients’ personal hygiene including bathing, toileting and dressing, promoting quality of life and independence.
- Support and assist at mealtimes as required
- To act as a positive role model to the service users and staff.
- Escort patients as appropriate to other areas of the hospital or outside the hospital as delegated by trained member of staff.
- Adhere to appropriate Trust and local policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Completion of regular physical health observations, including the recording of these. Also completing the physical health paperwork within the admission process, including smoking / alcohol recording forms.
- Supporting qualified staff in the participation of the care planning process.
- Taking an active lead in the infection control duties and responsibilities alongside the housekeeper.

**What You’ll Get**

Benefits you’ll receive from NHS Professionals
- Variety of wards and areas to work or gain experience in
- Flexibility to suit you
- Work this week, get paid next week
- Paid holiday as you build your allowance for every shift worked
- Stakeholder pension scheme
- Choice of shifts at over 50 NHS Trusts in England without registering at multiple Trusts

**Who are NHS Professionals?**

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.

**Disclaimer**
- COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our bank members who are not clinically exempt from vaccination to get vaccinated._

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Freelance, Temporary contract, Zero hours contract
Contract length: 24 months
Part-time hours: 12-48 per week

**Salary**: £9.57-£19.58 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Unlimited paid holidays
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
- Weekend availability
- Weekends only

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Commission pay
- Loyalty bonus
- Performance bonus
- Quarterly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Stockport, Greater Manchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Private/NHS Mental Health: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- NVQ Level 2 Health & Social Care or equivilant (required)
- in date PMVA or equivalent restraint training (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: National Bank



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