Site Trust Wide Town Hull, East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/01/2025 23:59
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job Overview
• Take the next step in your healthcare career in an award-winning NHS Trust with a reputation for high quality delivery & service.
• Range of roles available which could include being a part of: Older people’s functional mental health, Organic Assessment and Treatment, Psychiatric Intensive Care, Working Age Treatment and Assessment, Crisis Team, Specialist Recovery Service, ECT.
• Full NHS terms and conditions and enhanced benefits package.
• Develop your skills in a friendly environment with various opportunities for progression and skill development within your role.
Our enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced healthcare support workers work under the supervision of healthcare professionals to support them and help patients on their journey back to full health.
Working as part of an established clinical team, the successful candidate will be offered the opportunity to work in the clinical service that matches your skills, experiences, and individual needs.
Main Duties of the Job
The Health Care Support Worker plays a vital role in delivering high standards of care to patients at the Trust. Working in a busy clinical environment, you will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure all patients are cared for and treated with dignity and respect and receive the highest quality of care. Duties will be varied and will include:
* Demonstrating what it means in practice to promote and provide person-centred care treatment.
* Supporting by obtaining valid consent and carrying out risk assessments.
* Working in partnership with the individual, their carer, families, and the wider healthcare team.
* Promoting clinical effectiveness, safety, and a good experience for the individual.
* Making patients comfortable.
* Talking and listening to patients.
* Involvement in patient activities and supporting them to use ward facilities.
* Gaining experience in a number of key clinical skills throughout the programme.
Working for Our Organisation
In return, you will work in a supportive environment, with a team that understands having fun and enjoying work is important to building successful teams and services. If you are ambitious to progress beyond this role, you will be given the support and time to do this.
We understand the importance of maintaining a work-life balance and we fully encourage and support a wide range of flexible working initiatives. If the working hours/arrangements for this role do not meet your requirements, please don’t let this deter you from applying; we would welcome an application from you and will happily discuss any working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or equivalent experience.
* Working knowledge of physical or mental health issues including mental health legislation and medication management.
* Willingness to undertake further academic development.
Skills and Competencies
* Mandatory training for the management of violence and aggression.
Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working within physical or mental health services.
* Competency in taking physical observations.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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