Summary
This vacancy will be closing 21st January 2025. A number of vacancies has arisen for motivated individuals to undertake a developmental role as a Health Care Support Worker Apprentice to complete the Level 3 Health Care Support Worker qualification within our Mental Health services. These vacancies will be based in the Whalley MH inpatient units.
Annual wage
£23,615 a year
per annum subject to confirmation
Training course
Senior healthcare support worker (level 3)
Hours
Long days (13 shifts in 28 days), Short shifts (5 Short shifts a week including earlies and lates) or combination of the two (2 long shifts/2 short shifts p/w). Must be flexible over 7 days with expectation to rotate onto nights at times. Shifts TBC.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date
Sunday 30 March
Duration
2 years
Positions available
3
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
* Work as an integrated member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), working within a rotational shift system to support patients according to their care needs, some of whom may present with problematic or challenging behaviour
* Contribute to, and participate in, the ongoing support of patients and their carers
* Contribute to the protection of patients from abuse
* Contribute to the health, safety and security of patients and their environment
* Obtain, transmit and store information relating to the delivery of a care service
Where you’ll work
Whalley MH inpatient units
Mitton Road
Whalley
BB7 9PE
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
DYNAMIC TRAINING UK LIMITED
Your training course
Senior healthcare support worker (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
* Core: Work in line with legislation, policies, standards, local ways of working and codes of conduct that apply to own role.
* Core: Work within the scope of practice, the limits of own knowledge and skills, escalating and reporting to others when needed.
* Core: Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and non-discriminatory person-centred care and support with individuals’ established consent.
* Core: Implement a duty of care, recognising and responding to safeguarding and protection concerns and acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
* Core: Support individuals to make informed and positive lifestyle choices.
* Core: Actively seek out and act on opportunities to support individuals to maximise their health, well-being and positive lifestyle choices.
* Core: Recognise and respond to changes in an individual’s health and wellbeing.
* Core: Recognise and respond to the signs and symptoms that an individual is in pain, distress or discomfort to maximise comfort and well-being.
* Core: Promote and monitor access to fluids and nutrition in line with an individual’s care plan.
* Core: Communicate with individuals, their families, carers and others in the workplace using techniques designed to facilitate understanding.
* Core: Recognise and respond to limitations in an individual’s mental capacity.
* Core: Maintain a safe and healthy working environment, using infection prevention and control techniques including hand washing, sanitisation, disinfection and personal protective equipment (PPE).
* Core: Maintain the safe supply, storage, use and disposal of supplies and equipment.
* Core: Move and handle equipment or other items safely and assist individuals.
* Core: Take appropriate action in response to concerns, risks, incidents or errors and near misses arising in the workplace.
* Core: Perform basic life support techniques.
* Core: Recognise and respond to potential conflict, challenging behaviour or an escalating situation.
* Core: Undertake own training and development activities and contribute to the training and development of others.
* Core: Participate in appraisal to support professional development.
* Core: Reflect on and develop your own practice.
* Core: Record and store information related to individuals securely, including the safe use of technology.
* Core: Report and share information related to individuals securely and in line with local and national policies, maintaining confidentiality, duty of confidence and disclosure.
* Core: Participate in and support others with quality improvement activities in the workplace.
* Core: Use investigatory techniques to source evidence to validate and improve the delivery of care and support within own scope of practice.
* Core: Critically appraise sources of information and apply to practice.
* Core: Provide leadership and act as a role model for others within the scope of own role.
* Core: Contribute to mentoring and supervision of others in the workplace within the scope of own role.
* Core: Undertake physiological measurements, selecting and using the correct tools or equipment.
* Options 1 and 5: Adult nursing support and children and young people support: Support individuals with activities of daily living to develop and maintain their independence in line with their desired. outcomes and plan of care.
* Options 1, 2 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support and children and young people support: Assist with tissue viability risk assessments and manage pressure areas.
* Options 1 and 5: Adult nursing support and children and young people support: Assist with wound care in line with the care plan.
* Options 1, 2 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support and children and young people support: Obtain and test specimens in line with the care plan.
* Options 1, 2 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support and children and young people support: Provide care and support for individuals and their family during the end-of-life phase.
* Options 1, 2, 5 and 6: Adult nursing support, maternity support, children and young people support and allied health professional therapy support: Contribute to signposting to relevant agencies and, discharge or transfer of individuals between services, in line with their care plan.
* Options 1, 2, 4 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support, mental health support and children and young people support: Recognise and respond to deteriorations in physical health, mental health and wellbeing.
* Option 1: Adult nursing support: Support adults to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing and for managing their own condition.
* Option 2: Maternity support: Assist the midwife with teaching, feeding and hygiene needs of babies-parenting skills and antenatal and postnatal exercise.
* Option 2: Maternity support: Assist health care professionals with antenatal and newborn screening and provide information to parents about immunisation activities.
* Option 2: Maternity support: Provide support to the maternity team by maintaining the supply of resources, instruments and equipment.
* Option 2: Maternity support: Support personal care such as providing care for women with urethral catheters.
* Option 2: Maternity support: Identify the baby and provide wristband or label in line with local security procedures.
* Option 2: Maternity support: Care for the physical needs of babies by undertaking routine healthy baby observations and reporting any abnormalities.
* Option 2: Maternity support: Support parents and carers to meet the developmental, nutritional and hygiene needs of babies.
* Option 2: Maternity support: Work in partnership with families and other support services to support individuals in difficult circumstances, bereavement and loss.
* Option 2: Maternity support: Provide support to the midwife and others in the multi-disciplinary team in an emergency situation during pregnancy, labour, birth or the postnatal period.
* Option 3: Theatre support: Complete pre- and post-operative checklists.
* Option 3: Theatre support: Support the surgical team to maintain the sterile field.
* Option 3: Theatre support: Participate in team briefing, patient sign in, timeout, sign out and debriefing.
* Option 3: Theatre support: Support and monitor the pre-medicated, sedated and unconscious individual.
* Option 3: Theatre support: Measure and record an individual’s body fluid balance.
* Option 3: Theatre support: Move, position and transport individuals and specialist equipment before, during and after surgery.
* Option 3: Theatre support: Prepare the clinical environment and provide surgical instrumentation and supplementary items for the surgical team.
* Option 3: Theatre support: Carry out counts for swabs, sharps, instruments and disposable items and take action if something is missing.
* Option 3: Theatre support: Assist in receiving, handling and dispatching clinical specimens or blood products.
* Option 4: Mental health support: Use strategies and tools to promote mental wellbeing and to support individuals with mental ill health.
* Option 4: Mental health support: Observe, record and report changes and barriers, using proactive approaches to manage behaviour which challenges.
* Option 4: Mental health support: Take an active approach in supporting individuals to manage their condition.
* Option 4: Mental health support: Build, monitor and sustain therapeutic relationships with individuals, carers and their families.
* Option 4: Mental health support: Promote a recovery-based approach that enables the individual to manage their condition.
* Option 4: Mental health support: Enable and empower individuals to actively participate in society and recognise the impact of mental health on them and others.
* Option 4: Mental health support: Identify situations of risk to yourself or others and take action including seeking support.
* Option 4: Mental health support: Involve the individual, carers and family members in risk management processes.
* Option 4: Mental health support: Review and promote your own mental health and wellbeing.
* Option 5: Children and young people support: Support the development of children and young people through therapeutic play and learning.
* Option 5: Children and young people support: Support children and young people through transitions by enabling shared or independent decision making.
* Option 5: Children and young people support: Support parents, families and carers to meet the needs of children and young people.
* Option 5: Children and young people support: Support children and young people before, during or after diagnostic, clinical or therapeutic procedures.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Provide therapeutic support in line with care plans to encourage independence, self-management and skills for everyday life.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Assist with undertaking clinical risk assessments and management plans.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Recognise the impact of mental or physical capacity, health condition, learning disability or overall wellbeing on the therapeutic or clinical task or intervention and when to adapt.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Enable individuals to meet optimum potential.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Facilitate group sessions to support health and well-being of individuals or communities.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Support people to engage in the community and access activities or resources in line with their treatment goals.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Identify, order or fit therapeutic equipment and resources in line with the individual’s care plan.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Use equipment and resources therapeutically in a safe way in line with local policy and procedure.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Demonstrate and teach the safe and appropriate use of therapeutic equipment and resources.
* Option 6: Allied health professional therapy support: Complete safety checks for therapeutic equipment and resources, following protocols to report issues or make adaptations if appropriate.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Assist and support the multi-disciplinary team in the safe and effective operation and maintenance of the imaging environment.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Support the multi-disciplinary team in the safe flow of individuals through the imaging environment, recognising and complying with current legislation and best practice.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Prepare individuals for imaging procedures, including those that maybe pre-medicated, sedated or unconscious.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Support and position individuals during imaging procedures, including those that maybe pre-medicated, sedated or unconscious.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Support practitioners with the preparation and administration of medicines and contrast agents within the scope of own role.
* Option 7: Diagnostic Imaging Support: Administer medicines supplied by a registered practitioner within the scope of own role.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Insert, flush and remove cannulas in line with local protocols and within the scope of own role.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Provide after care for individuals following imaging procedures.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Assist practitioners in setting up and maintaining aseptic or clean area in the imaging environment.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Support the multi-disciplinary team in the safe delivery of an imaging service.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Review and promote the health and wellbeing of self and others, including mental health.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Participate in team briefing, patient sign in, timeout, sign out and debriefing.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Assist with undertaking clinical risk assessments and management plans.
* Option 7: Diagnostic imaging support: Recognise the impact of mental or physical capacity, health condition, learning disability or overall wellbeing on the therapeutic or clinical task or intervention and when to adapt.
* Core: Work in line with legislation, policies, standards, local ways of working and codes of conduct that apply to own role.
* Core: Work within the scope of practice, the limits of own knowledge and skills, escalating and reporting to others when needed.
* Core: Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe and non-discriminatory person-centred care and support with individuals’ established consent.
* Core: Implement a duty of care, recognising and responding to safeguarding and protection concerns and acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
* Core: Support individuals to make informed and positive lifestyle choices.
* Core: Actively seek out and act on opportunities to support individuals to maximise their health, well-being and positive lifestyle choices.
* Core: Recognise and respond to changes in an individual’s health and wellbeing.
* Core: Recognise and respond to the signs and symptoms that an individual is in pain, distress or discomfort to maximise comfort and well-being.
* Core: Promote and monitor access to fluids and nutrition in line with an individual’s care plan.
* Core: Communicate with individuals, their families, carers and others in the workplace using techniques designed to facilitate understanding.
* Core: Recognise and respond to limitations in an individual’s mental capacity.
* Core: Maintain a safe and healthy working environment, using infection prevention and control techniques including hand washing, sanitisation, disinfection and personal protective equipment (PPE).
* Core: Maintain the safe supply, storage, use and disposal of supplies and equipment.
* Core: Move and handle equipment or other items safely and assist individuals.
* Core: Take appropriate action in response to concerns, risks, incidents or errors and near misses arising in the workplace.
* Core: Perform basic life support techniques.
* Core: Recognise and respond to potential conflict, challenging behaviour or an escalating situation.
* Core: Undertake own training and development activities and contribute to the training and development of others.
* Core: Participate in appraisal to support professional development.
* Core: Reflect on and develop your own practice.
* Core: Record and store information related to individuals securely, including the safe use of technology.
* Core: Report and share information related to individuals securely and in line with local and national policies, maintaining confidentiality, duty of confidence and disclosure.
* Core: Participate in and support others with quality improvement activities in the workplace.
* Core: Use investigatory techniques to source evidence to validate and improve the delivery of care and support within own scope of practice.
* Core: Critically appraise sources of information and apply to practice.
* Core: Provide leadership and act as a role model for others within the scope of own role.
* Core: Contribute to mentoring and supervision of others in the workplace within the scope of own role.
* Core: Undertake physiological measurements, selecting and using the correct tools or equipment.
Your training plan
Apprentice will complete Level 3 Health Care Support Worker Apprenticeship.
You will gain a Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support.
Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
* Maths and English (grade 4/C+ or Level 2 equivalent)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Customer care skills
* Team working
* Non judgemental
* Patience
Other requirements
Applicants must be 18+ due to the nature of being in the Mental Health setting.