Healthcare Support Worker - Learning Disabilities

Job summary

We are seeking a Healthcare Support Worker at Band 3 to join our supportive and innovation Community Learning Disability Team.

The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, person centred individual with excellent communication skills who will be joining our well established Community Learning Disability Team.

We aim to provide high quality, community based, integrated services for adults with learning disabilities. As such, we are seeking an individual with a passion for working within and improving learning disability services.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an enthusiastic and well-motivated Healthcare Support Worker to work as part of our multi-disciplinary community team providing services to adults with Learning Disabilities. The team covers the South Staffordshire area.

You will hold a caseload, supervised by an appropriate clinician, and work autonomously. You will use a variety of approaches with service users who have complex needs including autism. Previous knowledge and experience of working with people with learning disabilities is essential.

The community team consists of nurses, psychologists, consultant psychiatrists, speech and language therapy, physio, health facilitation, health care support worker and OT's. The post holder will visit clients in their own homes, day services, residential care homes or other community settings.

This is a community role within a specialist MDT and the post offers the opportunity for active contribution to team working. There are opportunities to develop skills and competencies within the role

About us

By joining Team MPUFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rate s
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.