Health Care Support Worker

Oaklands ward is looking for 2 Healthcare Assistants, Oaklands is a 16 bedded mixed sex acute psychiatric ward.Our hospital vision statement and commitment "Is to listen and to look after each other whilst creating a safe space for everyone" Let's be brave, curious and creative together and be proud of what we can achieve'' We value the importance of supervision and on-going training and development. we always have a senior nurse B6 or B7 on duty to provide additional support and leadership.Main duties of the jobAs a health care assistant, you will be working alongside an established and experienced multi-disciplinary team (MDT). This consists of nurses, healthcare assistants, nursing associates, doctors, occupational therapists, psychologists and the pharmacy team. 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 be required to train in prevention and management of violence and aggression training (PMVA). These posts are ideal for people who are passionate about helping others, who are aware of professional boundaries and practice accordingly. Applicants should be compassionate, caring, sensitive, warm and open-minded.About usWe're a large NHS Mental Health Trust in South East England. We're looking for people to help us provide high quality services for the patients, carers and local communities we serve. We would like to create an environment where service users, nurses, nurse associates, nursing assistants and carers are all leaders and actively involved in making decisions about our services.We'd love you to join our organisation that is rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.Training: you would be supported and encouraged to go on a number of different training/development opportunitiesJob responsibilitiessee job descriptionWe are committed to investing in our staff in order to provide you with further training and development. To help our staff thrive in their roles we offer regular, good quality supervision, appraisals, in-depth training and development opportunities.Work with the multi-disciplinary team to establish and deliver a therapeutic programme of care for clients. Supporting patient care. To adopt a flexible approach to hours of duty, in order to meet the needs of the service over a 24-hour period. To deliver a high standard of evidence based inpatient nursing care in the designated care group in partnership with the team, the service users and where appropriate their family.As a health care assistant, you will be working alongside an established and experienced multi-disciplinary team (MDT)..Person SpecificationQualificationsNVQ level 3 or equivalent experienceKnowledge/ExperienceExperience of working with mental health needs in a paid or voluntary capacityExperience of working collaboratively i.e. with colleagues, wider teams, service users etcAn understanding of confidentialityExperience of working within mental health servicesSkillsGood communication skills with a good command of written and spoken English languageAbility to exchange factual information with service users using, reassurance, tact, empathyAbility to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, be flexible around shift work and have good communication skillsAbility to know when to escalate concernsAbility to work in partnership with service users, carers and other agenciesAbility to know when to seek support from team members when working individually within a service user group or in a 1:1 settingDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. #J-18808-Ljbffr