Health Care Support Worker
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Post Title: Health Care Support Worker
Department: Older Adult Home Treatment Team
Location: Wolverhampton - Brooklands Health Centre
Directorate: Mental Health
Band: 3
Hours: 37.5 over 7 days
Contract Type: Permanent
Responsible to: Susan Edwards - ECMHT Team Manager
Responsible for: (Staff Responsibility)
Main duties of the job
- To provide individual or group interventions to service users and/or carers in accordance with their care plan.
- To make relevant service user/carer observations and to share with relevant members of CRHTT/MDT and other agencies.
- To conduct solo and joint contacts with service users in the community.
- Support service users with medication management.
- Positively support independent living within the community.
- Provide information on health promotion.
- Help service users gain access to community resources and support with access to benefits and welfare rights.
- Develop and maintain therapeutic relationship within appropriate and transparent boundaries.
About us
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.
Across the whole of the region we provide:
- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- CAMHS
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.
We currently employ over 3,000 members of staff and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
Date posted
23 August 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£22,816 to £24,336 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
285-0861A-MH
Job locations
Brooklands Health Centre
Brooklands Parade
Wolverhampton
WV1 2ND
Employer details
Employer name
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Brooklands Health Centre
Brooklands Parade
Wolverhampton
WV1 2ND
Employer's website
https://www.blackcountryhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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