Healthcare Assistant Mental Health

**Healthcare Assistant Mental Health - Bowman Low Secure Unit**:
**Band 3**:
**Main area**
- Secure services
- **Grade**
- Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-161-A**Site**
- Bowman Low Secure Unit
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £21,730 - £23,177 Per annum/Pro Rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank 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_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _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**:
Are you a healthcare assistant looking for a development experience within a specialist setting?

Do you have a passion for working with individuals within a longer stay environment with an ethos that focuses rehabilitation and recovery?

Then being part of Bowman team may be just what your looking for. Bowman ward is a twelve bedded male Low Secure Unit in Bodmin hospital, Cornwall.

We strive to provide a creative and holistic service for men who are experiencing severe and enduring mental health problems. These men require time and intensive support to aid their recovery within a provision of low security. These may have a forensic history or been in contact with the criminal justice system.

We value co-production and patient voice and promote staff to drive these areas forward to evolve our service. We are committed to developing our staff and provide a full Corporate Curriculum training programme which will support your learning and development into the future.

We are commissioned as part of the South West Provider Collaborative so work closely with all secure services within region to share learning and enhance patient secure care pathways.

We are accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatry QNFMS and strive to drive forward quality improvement initiatives and service development opportunities. As a staff nurse we promote your active involvement and create opportunities to specialise within this field.

**Main duties of the job**:

- To Support the delivery of care needs by carrying out assigned tasks involving direct care under the supervision of a registered nurse.- To contribute to the evaluation of programmes of care by reporting to the clinical supervisor.
- As part of a team, provide high quality mental health care to the service users
- To promote recovery.
- To do all the above in a manner that maintains safety for all.
- To assist in service and good practice developments

**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 or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of t