Healthcare Assistant - Cove Ward

Job summary

This is an exciting and new opportunity to work in a ward for older adults suffering with long and enduring mental issues.

You will be responsible for providing quality interventions and support to our patients; this will take the place of 1:1 and groups aimed at supporting and empowering people. This will range from supporting with personal care tasks to moving on from hospital and accessing community facilities and much more in between. You must be able to communicate in a sensitive manner. You will be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary Team.

Cove Ward has a strong multidisciplinary team including healthcare assistants, nurses, occupational therapists, social inclusion workers, clinical psychology, and psychiatry. Our focus however is on the service user and they are at the heart of the team.

Main duties of the job

• To Support the delivery of care needs by carrying out assigned tasks involving direct care under the supervision of a registered nurse.
• To contribute to the evaluation of programmes of care by reporting to the clinical supervisor.
• As part of a team, provide high quality mental health care to the service users to promote recovery.
• To do all the above in a manner that maintains safety for all. To assist in service and good practice developments.

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live her. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.