Healthcare Assistant, Camhs

2 weeks ago


Northampton, United Kingdom St Andrew's Healthcare Full time

**Healthcare Assistant - CAMHS**

**Location: Northampton**

**Salary: From £23,624 plus enhancements**

**Hours: Full time (37.5 hours)**

**We are looking for experienced (within CAMHS) Healthcare Assistants to join our team**

**Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)**:
Our CAMHS is a **Trauma Informed Care Service**, ensuring that everything we do is driven by an understanding of how trauma affects the whole person; physically, mentally and socially. We provide low CAMHS inpatient services, with the objective of enabling young people to live well and to their full potential in the least restrictive environment possible.

Our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are designed for boys and girls aged 13 to 18 with complex mental disorders, severe emotional and behavioural difficulties, intellectual disabilities, mental illness and autistic spectrum disorders. Our ethos, is to provide person-centered care which addresses young people’s mental health needs as well as their functional, cognitive, emotional, social, communication, sensory and vocational needs.

**The Role**:
Healthcare Assistants work in our Clinical areas, supporting staff teams in delivering and focusing on our Patients and their rehabilitation, daily activities and care. The role can be quite active and we would therefore require you to be able to cope with the demands of an active post. To join St Andrew’s as a Healthcare Assistant we are looking for the following:
**Essential Criteria**:

- Previous experience working within CAMHS
- Good standard of literacy, numeracy and IT skills
- Working within a mental healthcare setting will require resilience as it can be a challenging role
- Undertake personal care (washing, toileting, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills
- To be able to follow instructions and procedures
- To be able to work in a team but use your own initiative
- Observational skills

**Rewards**

**Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.**

**Closing Date: Sunday 9th March



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