Health Care Support Worker

Job summary

Are you a kind, caring, compassionate person, and want a job where you can make a difference, and feel valued, to which you get reward from what you do?

Have you always had an interest in mental health and working in healthcare, then this could be the job for you!!! Would you like to join us on our new psychiatric intensive care unit, Abbey Ward where you can develop and learn new skills? If so, then we would love to talk to you!!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, passionate, resilient, and motivated person, to join our team. Abbey Ward is a purpose built 10 bedded female psychiatric intensive care unit, the first in Hampshire. It will provide rapid assessment, implementation of care and treatment for acutely mentally unwell female patients with associated risks.

Main duties of the job

The role of a Healthcare Support Worker will offer an opportunity for career defining training and challenges; it will offer exposure to a very distinctive and rewarding environment, where you will be part of a close-knit team. There will be opportunities to develop, where you will gain experience working within adult mental health. You will be on hand to support the band 3 HCSW's, and nurses as well as the wider clinical team. You would be supported to develop in an environment that promotes learning, and expected to undertake training in order to forfil your role.

Abbey ward has a structured career pathway to which every individual will be supported in their professional development, and onto nurse training or into specialist roles, should you be motivate and desire progression

If you would like to explore this opportunity further and have a passion for developing an improving services, we would love to hear from you.

You will need to be able to work a variety of shift patterns including nights and weekends, over a 7 day period.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working -- all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Antelope House

Brintons Terrace

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 0YG

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Antelope House

Brintons Terrace

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 0YG

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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