Healthcare Assistant

We are building brand new Acute Inpatient healthcare facilities as part of our Making Room for Dignity programme and have exciting opportunities for Healthcare Assistants to join our male PICU, female Enhanced Care Ward and our current inpatient wards in Derby.
This is an opportunity to join a new wider multi-disciplinary team, supporting a range of patients with complex acute mental health needs. This is an opportunity to have a voice in developing our services.
Our team supports those with a functional mental health illness. We work proactively with our patient group and their loved ones promoting independence and choice in their care.
Please be mindful that the ward provides a 24 hour, year round inpatient service, so you would need to be able to work shift patterns including, morning, afternoon, weekends, Christmas, New Year and Bank Holidays (and nights if needed).
Please be mindful that the wards provide a 24-hour a day, 7 days a week, inpatient service.
DHCFT have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, dedicated and experienced Band 3 Healthcare Assistants to work within the dynamic Mental Health inpatient services for adults of working age.
Inpatient wards are an evolving service, open to change and developing new ways of working and demonstrate a positive profile within the Trust and with service users and carers. You will be expected to deliver high standards of person centred care showing empathy, patience and understanding at all times.
In this role you will be actively involved in delivering direct patient care under the supervision of qualified nurses and other members of the team.
As someone who will spend all your time caring and supporting people on the wards, you will be responsible for reporting to registered staff the care you deliver during your shift.
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
**As a valued member of the team we can offer you**:
Training to make sure we keep you and others safe at work
Ongoing training and development to expand your skills and knowledge
Clinical supervision and annual appraisal
Ongoing support from members of your team
Opportunities for career development including training for nursing associates.
**Benefits include**:
Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years’ service
Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
Generous NHS pension scheme
Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
Health service discounts and online benefits
Incremental pay progression
Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
Health and wellbeing opportunities
Structured learning and development opportunities
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Are you looking for a new exciting opportunity to work in a team where you can continually develop your skills and knowledge base?
As a Healthcare Assistant you will be completing daily duties including:
Providing care and support for patients who are acutely mentally unwell
Spending 1:1 time with patients
Escorting patients off the ward
Completing levels of observations with patients
Engaging patients in therapeutic activities
Completing physical observations and general physical checks
Working alongside a multi-disciplinary team to make changes in patients' care
Supporting patients with their ADLs
Managing difficult situations
Providing support to other wards across the unit
Responding to patients when they are distressed