Health Care Support Worker

**Health Care Support Worker, Ward 1, Harplands Hospital**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Health Care Support Worker on Ward 1, Harplands Hospital. This vacancy would suit someone who is looking for an exciting opportunity and wants to work on an Acute Inpatient Ward.

Ward 1 is a 14 bedded mixed gender acute admissions ward for patients between the ages of 18-65. We pride ourselves in being a dynamic, fast paced acute ward specializing in complex mental health needs.

**The main duties of the role are**:
To provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users.

To promote and support the physical health, comfort, wellbeing and recovery of service users and to assist them in reestablishing their place in the community, as appropriate.

To assist Registered Professionals in assessments and care planning/implementation and evaluation of individualised care plans.

To provide support and day to day supervision to junior staff members, demonstrating the Health Care Support Worker role and role modelling good practice.

**Awarded Trust of the Year**:
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our team prides themselves on compassion, team work and resilience.

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it. To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate professional who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving Mental Health Trust in the Country. Whether you are about to qualify, newly qualified or an experienced practitioner, we want to meet you and discuss the possibility of you joining this great Team.

The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.

In return we offer;
A competitive progressive salary

We cover the cost of your DBS Check (£44)

Uniform provided

Competitive staff benefits such as weekly offers and discounts

Individual Personal Development Plan and Career Progression

Excellent pension scheme available

27- 33 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)

free parking
- Communicates with service-users and carers, all members of the multi-disciplinary team and staff in external agencies using a variety of methods including Information Technology.
- Regularly reports and effectively communicates service-users health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to Registered Health Professional staff members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team. (query blending the above two - first is about patients/public, second is healthcare staff).
- Relates appropriately with service-users, carer's, colleagues and others - at all times maintaining professional boundaries.
- At all times ensures that own actions, support the equality, diversity, rights and responsibilities of individuals.
- Identifies, minimizes and reports risks of danger, harm and abuse to senior colleagues.
- At all times minimizes risks to self and others by undertaking safe working practices.
- At all times works within agreed and established Trust policy and operational procedures.
- Works with other Trust services to promote seamless service-user person centred care from referral/admission, to transfer and discharge on identified care pathways.
- Responsible for contribution towards planning and undertaking delivery of planned therapeutic activities with an identified group of service users.
- Responsible for undertaking elements of a holistic assessment, under the direction of Registered Health Professional staff. Responsible for regularly working with service-users to negotiate and review existing plans to address identified needs under the supervision of Registered Professionals.
- Works in partnership with service-users to assist them in identifying activities that are meaningful to them and that support agreed health outcomes.