Health Care Support Workers

**The closing date is 24th Nov 2024**

**Anticipated Interview date(s) w/c 24th November 2024**

**Job summary**:
A career as a Healthcare Support Worker offers a fantastic entry point into the NHS, with opportunities for training and progression, including access to nursing apprenticeships.

As a Healthcare Support Worker, you will work closely with patients, their families, friends, and carers. You will be essential in ensuring those who use our services have a positive experience and work as part of our dedicated teams comprising of nurses, healthcare support workers, activity coordinators, social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

We currently have vacancies available on:

- Acute mental Health ward - Melbury Lodge, Winchester
- Forensic mental health wards - Ravenswood, Fareham and Southfields, Calmore
- Children and Adolescents mental health wards - Tatchbury Mount, Calmore

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
Support the nursing and wider team to provide clinical tasks.

Therapeutic observations

Physical health monitoring

Providing emotional support to patients

One to one observation for patients who present a high risk due to a clinical condition.

Ensuring that the ward environment is clean and safe preventing infection and falls.

Record changes to a patient's condition and escalate to the registered nursing team.

**About us**:
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

**Job description**:
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
Level 2 Diploma/NVQ in
Health and Social Care or
equivalent.
Functional Skills Level 2 or
equivalent.

**Disclosure and Barring Service Check**:
Vicky Gardiner & Ysabel DeLaCruz

02381031521

**Pay scheme**:
Agenda for Change

**Band**:
Band 2

**Salary**:

- £23615.00 Yearly
- **Contract**:
Permanent

**Working pattern**:
Full-Time, Flexible Working

**Reference number**:
348-SS-5038

**Job locations**:
Austen House
Tatchbury Mount, Calmore
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 2TA
- Melbury Lodge
Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Romsey Road
Winchester
Hampshire
SO22 5DG
Ravenswood House
Mayles Lane, Knowle
Fareham
Hampshire
PO17 5NA
Bluebird House
Tatchbury Mount, Calmore
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 2RZ