Healthcare Assistant

1 month ago

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

Are you passionate about mental health? Would you like a career in the NHS?

We are looking for Healthcare Assistants to work on our male acute mental health inpatient ward at Marlborough House

We ask that you are :

Committed to giving the highest standard of collaborative patient care Compassionate towards patients and their loved ones An excellent communicator with the ability to work in a team

Clinical Support staff are the second largest staffing group behind nursing at Oxford Health Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers contribute significantly to the standards of nursing, and patient experience and outcomes, providing valued support to our inpatient nursing and multi-disciplinary teams.

This role can be the first rung on the ladder to becoming a qualified nurse. You can progress through our apprenticeship framework without having to attend and fund a full time university course.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible 

Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:  “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are:  “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

Excellent opportunities for career progression Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers Competitive pension scheme Lease car scheme Cycle to work scheme Employee Assistance Programme Mental Health First Aiders Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply) Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In return we can offer you:

The opportunity to work as part of a close-knit team The opportunity and time to give the care that you would wish to receive A supportive working environment Access to excellent training and development.

Care Certificate:

All new non-registered clinical staff will receive an induction to the Trust that enables them to complete or refresh the Care Certificate.

The Care Certificate is a national certificate, which was introduced to provide the public with assurance that the staff looking after them have been assessed as having the correct introductory skills, knowledge and behaviours to enable them to provide safe, compassionate, high quality care.

The Care Certificate consists of 15 standards assessed in practice by completion of a portfolio. Completing or refreshing the Care Certificate, attending local induction and having the support of your clinical team will enable you to build on your existing skills and develop skills and behaviours needed for a successful career with Oxford Health.

You will be required to undertake the PEACE (Positive Engagement and Caring Environments) training.

Our staff say:

‘I really enjoy making a difference with our patients’

‘There are learning opportunities, and I feel supported to learn new information and integrate it with my practice’

‘I find the team very supportive and enjoy the challenge’

Want to talk about the role?

Give us a call, we would be very happy to hear from you

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

A good command of English Language Good IT skills

Desirable criteria

NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent.

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to communicate with a wide range of people verbally and in writing Awareness and acceptance of rights and needs of patients Able to recognize stress/anxieties in colleagues, patients and their families and offer appropriate support Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Experience

Desirable criteria

Previous experience of working with patients with minimal supervision Understanding of other healthcare professional roles Experience of interdisciplinary working.

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

Enthusiasm to work with people and promote a therapeutic environment Confident and able to work alone with patients with distant supervision Able to work flexibly to the needs of the service Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels Caring, compassionate, and enthusiastic about delivering the highest quality care Ability to work as part of a team, and support all colleagues and healthcare professional Self-aware, resilient, and aware of own limitation.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Understanding of other health care professional roles Demonstrate knowledge and ability to communicate with patients with complex needs using clear and effective verbal and nonverbal communication incorporating motivation and encouragement. All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.  We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

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