Main area Acute Care Group - Inpatient Rehabilitation Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 380-AC0646
Employer Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust Employer type NHS Site Priority House Town Maidstone Salary £24,071 - £25,674 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 09/12/2024 23:59
Senior Health Care Assistant
Band 3
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Job overview
There is an exciting permanent opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Healthcare Worker (full-time) to join our experienced multi-disciplinary team on Boughton Ward, Priority House, Maidstone Hospital. Boughton ward is an 18 bedded Male ward.
Under the guidance and supervision of the team, you will deliver an effective and competent level of care to adults with Acute mental health needs. You will be involved in assisting patients in their day-to-day activities, supporting them to maintain and develop skills towards independence, and continue their recovery.
This post will involve shift working to cover 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Main duties of the job
* Offering appropriate support and advice to the patients in our care, and accurately recording all care given as required onto RiO and validating own entries.
* Providing physical health care & physical health checks as required or instructed, documenting the physical health checks on the modified early warning scoring system (MEWS) chart and reporting changes to the nurse in charge of the shift.
* Supporting and carrying out patient therapeutic observation checks as required and instructed.
* Escorting Patients to attend hospital appointments and Section 17 leave if requested.
* Taking the lead in a specific area of work for the ward, e.g. Wellbeing, Health & Safety or Patient Activity.
* Undertaking all relevant training as directed and participating in regular management/clinical supervision and appraisal.
* Working a full range of shifts covering a 24 hour period, including twilight and night shifts. You may also be required, at times, to work at other Trust sites.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
* Good general education, competent in literacy and numeracy
* NVQ or equivalent in a relevant subject (e.g. Health and Social Care) or be prepared to work towards this
* Recovery Star Training
Experience
* Experience of working with individuals with complex mental health problems
* Experience of working in a community mental health setting
* Experience of implementing rehabilitation plans
* Experience of individual and group work
Knowledge and Skills
* An awareness of enduring mental health disorders
* A basic understanding of the Recovery Model
* An awareness of the impact of mental health needs on clients, families and carers
* An ability to form rapport with individuals and groups
* An ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times, even in challenging/complex situations
* Ability to work autonomously and cooperatively as part of an interdisciplinary team, showing an awareness of team dynamics
* Ability to communicate information using a variety of mediums
* Basic awareness of clinical governance
* Effective organisational/planning and decision making skills
* Sound knowledge and practice of IT skills
* Willingness to work flexibly
* An awareness of social activities and amenities within the local community
* Knowledge of benefits and employment systems
* Awareness of tenancy issues
* Basic health and safety awareness
* A basic understanding of the Mental Health Act
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
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