Health Care Support Workers - Children & Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), inpatient Unit
Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. It also demonstrates what you can expect from our organisation and what you can aspire to in your own career development. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. We are committed to supporting the development of a nursing and midwifery workforce that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader as well as demonstrating alignment with the values and ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. We are committed to providing the strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, our education co-ordinators, robust induction programmes and preceptorship as well as working with you to build on your leadership strengths.
Recruitment process – We use a values and competency based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set our in our Strategic Plan. Click the link below for more information on our interview questions:
Exciting opportunities are available to join CAMHS Inpatient Unit within the Royal Hospital for Children & Young People. We have multiple Band 3 positions available for Health Care Support Workers and we are looking for passionate, caring, motivated people to join our highly skilled nursing teams. Our 12 bedded inpatient unit is located at Little France with the Children’s services but remain part of REAS and the Mental Health service.
We offer the opportunity to work with talented teams within multidisciplinary environments and impact positively on the lives of thousands of patients and their families.
Role
1. Based in the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People.
2. Working with 12-18 year olds with various mental health illnesses.
3. Learn skills such as venepuncture and how to monitor physical observations.
4. Learn how to do meal support for young people with eating disorders.
5. Ward based nursing skills.
6. Flexible working hours where possible.
7. Challenging but worthwhile role assisting young people through their journey to recovery.
If you are an internal NHS Lothian Band 3 candidate we will not proceed with shortlisting and interview and instead you will move to our internal transfer process. To find out more about the internal transfer process, please click on the link below:
If you would like to arrange a stay and grow conversation to discuss your career, career pathways and opportunities within NHS Lothian please click on the link below:
Find out what our staff say about working in NHS Lothian at: