General Worker

**General Worker**:
**Band 2**:
**Main area**
- General worker / assistant
- **Grade**
- Band 2
- **Contract**
- Bank/Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time
- Other

Ad-hoc hours
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-039-D**Site**
- Countywide
- **Town**
- Countywide
- **Salary**
- £18,870 - £19,918 pa/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._**

We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic General Workers to join our Flexi team, working in our Community Hospitals or Mental Health Inpatient Wards across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Duties may include;
- General social interaction with patients, talking, observing and escalating concerns
- Cleaning
- Food preparation and service
- Housekeeping duties i.e. making beds, filling water jugs
- Meeting and greeting
- Putting away stock
- Carrying out other duties our trained and experienced staff need completing
- To report any concerns or issues to the manager in charge

You could receive a worker assignment through our recruitment process and will receive weekly pay and paid training.

**Permanent Contracts available working within Mental Health**

**Person specification**:
**Education/Qualification**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to read and write proficiently to communicate to wide range of people

**Desirable criteria**:

- Level 2 qualification or experience in a care environment

**Skills/Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Skilled in communicating with a range of people

**Desirable criteria**:

- Knowledge of working in a care setting
- At Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust we are proud to prioritise the development of our people. To support this, the following opportunities are available:_
- Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
- Protected CPD time for registered staff
- Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
- Leadership and Management development programmes
- Coaching and mentoring opportunities
- A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
- Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
- A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
- Individual professional development programmes
- Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:_
- Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues physical and mental health
- Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
- Free DBS checks where required
- Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme

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