Healthcare Support Worker (Older Adult Ward)

Job summary

We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a Health Care Support Worker to join our Mental Health In-patient Older Adult Ward based on Oak Ward, The Redwoods Centre, Shrewsbury.

We are looking for individuals who will provide high quality care and treatment to our patients. Oak Ward is an assessment ward mainly covering Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin. Sometimes we have patients from other areas. We have 16 beds and provide care for males and females with possible or diagnosed organic mental illnesses such as dementia. We do also provide care for older adults with a functional mental health condition.

Your career with us will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference to the lives of our service users.

This post is for a band 2 HCSW. There is opportunity to complete the uplift competencies and progress to a band 3 Senior Health Care Support worker on successful completion of these.

This role will require you to work shift patterns covering 24/7

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Main duties of the job

As a Healthcare Support Worker on our Mental Health wards, you will promote service user's recovery through the delivery of high quality, outcome measured care and evidence-based interventions.

As part of this role, you will be expected to

• Provide support and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users with mental health needs.
• Assist Registered Professionals in the implementation and evaluation of individualised care plans
• Regularly report and effectively communicate service users' health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to Registered Professional Staff members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including while supporting section 136 assessments and ECT treatment

About us

By joining Team MPFT, 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, mileage paid at business rates
• 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.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.