Bank Healthcare Assistant

1 month ago


Worthing, United Kingdom Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust Full time

Do you have a passion for helping others?

Does a role in the NHS, supporting crucial mental health services motivate you?

This could be the perfect opportunity for you.

We are looking for a Healthcare Assistant to join our team at the Forget Me Not Unit in Swandean, Worthing, where you will be working alongside nursing staff and consultant to aid with the overall day to day activities ensuring the care and safety of service users.

We are a friendly, caring and creative hospital which has been newly refurbished after four years in planning. Specifically designed with the needs of people living with dementia and their families and carers in mind.

This is a challenging but hugely rewarding role with lots of progression available to the right person.

As a Healthcare Assistant, your main responsibilities will be to work with the multi-disciplinary team to establish and deliver a therapeutic programme of care for service users.

You will be required to communicate with patients, relatives and carers and assisting with clinical duties, including personal care and ensuring infection prevention and control standards are maintained.

You will also undertake personal care duties for service users in hospital, report patient's conditions to qualified staff and document care delivery in patients notes.

You will need to use your strong communication skills, attention to detail and motivation to provide quality care for service users.

The Forget Me Not Unit aims to reduce distress caused to people with dementia or those at risk of dementia who need to be treated in and acute hospital bed. The unit provides a calm, dementia friendly environment with patients being cared for by staff who are competent to meet their needs.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

**Other key survey results**:

- 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
- 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
- 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

In order to be a successful Healthcare Assistant in our team you will:

- Have a recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace or equivalent technical/life skills
- Be fit to undertake any duties related to the role including physical interventions for the management of violence and aggression
- Have experience working as part of a team
- Have excellent communication skills
- Have evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
- Have a professional and friendly demeanour

**It would also be advantageous if you**:

- Have experience working within a mental health setting
- NVQ Level 2 in care

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.


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