Trainee Healthcare Support Worker - Mental Health

Job summary

Open the door to your NHS career today. Discover how you can earn while you learn.

Join our Healthcare Support Worker development (HCSWD) programme, where you will learn on the job at Ravenswood House in Fareham under Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust over a6-monthperiod.

Pay Rates:

Days: £12.21,Saturdays/Nights: £17.22,Sunday/Bank Hols: £22.34

Main duties of the job

As a trainee HCSW in Mental Health, you'll learn key skills, such as:

• Taking basic observations, explaining treatment, and updating patient records.
• Supporting patients with everyday activities, including assisting at mealtimes.
• Providing emotional support and reassurance to patients and their families.
• Monitoring patients physical and mental health and keeping accurate records.
• Supervising patients to ensure their safety, managing common emergencies, and performing risk assessments.
• Working individually and as part of a team, supporting registered Nurses and other healthcare practitioners in providing patient care.
• Comply with Trust and local policies and procedures including Safeguarding, Infection Prevention and Control.

The Ideal Candidate

What youll need:

• As an entry level role, you do not need any previous healthcare experience.
• A passion for care as well as following the six enduring values that underpin compassion in practice. The 6Cs are defined as: Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage, and Commitment.
• To beover the age of 18or turning 18 before placement.
• Able to work at least 30 hours a week across earlies, lates and nights during the programme.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Benefits of joining HCSWD

• Career Progression
• Work this week, get paid next week
• Paid annual leave and build holiday allowance
• Provide care, safety, and welfare for patients
• Join the NHS family and become a part of the healthcare team
• Dedicated training and supervised shifts with support from your ward / area and skilled mentors.

About the Trust

Ravenswood House is for people with serious mental illness and/or personality disorder who need to receive their care in a secure environment. Ravenswood House is comprised of three medium secure wards and two low secure wards. Most of the patients have either committed a criminal offence, or have challenging behaviour.