Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker- Green Lane Hospital

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Job summary

Poppy Unit is a 20 bedded mixed acute unit based in Wiltshire. We are looking for a new colleague, with a passion for helping people, to join us asHealthcare Support Worker in our team based at Green Lane Hospital, Devizes.

Main duties of the job

To deliver high quality care and recovery interventions for service users within designated clinical areas.Supporting individuals with fluids and nutrition, physical wellbeing, and personal care.

Assisting service users with financial or accommodation issues.

Escorting or accompanying service users for planned periods of leave on hospital grounds and in the community facilitating social inclusion.

Encouraging service users to talk about their experiences in one-to-one or group discussions.

To help maintain a clean, well-organised, safe and therapeutic environment.

To deliver psychosocially-informed one to one and group interventions aiming to positively impact service users' cognitive and emotional wellbeing.

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

To practise planned care, and to directly participate in the development of recovery-focused interventions that address service users' and carers' needs and preferences.

To proactively review, record and assess the on-going impacts of suchinterventions.

To participate in the on-going care planning, CPA and risk assessment processes in collaboration with service users, their carers, and other members of the care team and to contribute to all aspects of clinical record keeping.To maintain a basic working understanding of both the Mental Health Act (1983) and Mental Capacity Act (2005).

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

As an NHS employee you will have access to a wide range of benefits and discounts, including the NHS pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement. Best of all you will have the reward of doing a job that really matters, with colleagues who care.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger

Date posted

09 October 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

342-WTS265-1023

Job locations

Green Lane Hospital

Marshall Road

Devizes

SN10 5DS

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work as part of a care team to deliver evidence-based interventions to service users with mental health problems.

To develop and practice, working alongside registered clinicians, a set of therapeutic care skills, making a significant contribution to service users psychological, emotional and social wellbeing.

To ensure service users and their relatives receive care that prioritises safety, effectiveness, partnership and hope.

To promote and champion core care values by supporting junior, temporary and newly-appointed Healthcare Support Workers.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work as part of a care team to deliver evidence-based interventions to service users with mental health problems.

To develop and practice, working alongside registered clinicians, a set of therapeutic care skills, making a significant contribution to service users psychological, emotional and social wellbeing.

To ensure service users and their relatives receive care that prioritises safety, effectiveness, partnership and hope.

To promote and champion core care values by supporting junior, temporary and newly-appointed Healthcare Support Workers.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Demonstrates an understanding of how mental health issues can affect people
Experience of working as a healthcare support worker in a clinical team.
Demonstrable ability to use computer systems efficiently and effectively to record data clearly, accurately and quickly

Qualifications

Essential

Possession of, or the ability and willingness to work towards, an appropriate Level 3 vocational qualification (e.g. Level 3 Diploma in Mental Health or Health and Social Care)

Skills

Essential

Ability to communicate in written and verbal English to a high standard, and basic numeracy skills.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Demonstrates an understanding of how mental health issues can affect people
Experience of working as a healthcare support worker in a clinical team.
Demonstrable ability to use computer systems efficiently and effectively to record data clearly, accurately and quickly

Qualifications

Essential

Possession of, or the ability and willingness to work towards, an appropriate Level 3 vocational qualification (e.g. Level 3 Diploma in Mental Health or Health and Social Care)

Skills

Essential

Ability to communicate in written and verbal English to a high standard, and basic numeracy skills.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Green Lane Hospital

Marshall Road

Devizes

SN10 5DS

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Green Lane Hospital

Marshall Road

Devizes

SN10 5DS

Employer's website

http://www.awp.nhs.uk/about-us/working-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)