Band 3 Bank Healthcare Support Worker - Trustwide
Join our Bank as a Healthcare Support Worker Band 3.
It's hard to sum up in a few words just how much our Healthcare Support Workers mean to us, but when we asked our teams, the words they used were: Passionate. Essential. Inspiring. Dedicated. Needed. Invaluable. Just think, this could be how you are described when you join us as one of our new Healthcare Support Workers.
You'll support our teams by delivering fantastic care to all our service users, helping do whatever it takes to ensure they receive the very best service possible. Whether you are helping to undertake observations, supporting service users with their personal care, or listening to them when they are distressed, worried, depressed, or agitated - you will see first-hand the impact your role makes every minute you are working.
Our hospitals and teams don't close, so as you would expect, we work on a shift basis - our service users need our care and attention 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so everyone gets involved working different shifts to ensure they receive the very best care.
With recent experience in mental healthcare, you will find your skills are transferable to our healthcare settings and service users.
The Trust is required to carry out mandatory employment checks. Please bring the original ID documents requested below to your interview if selected.
Main Duties of the Job
* Support service users with daily activities.
* Engage and observe service users to provide a safe space to recover.
* Work within the MDT to provide planned and effective care.
* Observe and manage the environment by continuous risk assessment.
* Meet the standards of care within the NHS whilst adhering to AWP Policies and procedures.
About Us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP, we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job Responsibilities
Sometimes the role will be tough; you will see and be involved in some difficult situations involving our service users, be rushed off your feet, and deliver very direct care. We don't want to shy away from that, and we understand that this part of the role isn't for everyone. That is why we run a robust interview and assessment process to ensure you understand the role, as much as we need to assess you to check you have all the skills, attributes, resilience, and caring nature we need. We cannot wait to welcome you to one of our interview and assessment days.
Previous applicants need not reapply.
Person Specification
* Must have previous experience in mental health.
* Must have previous experience in care work.
* Be trained in RRI.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer Name
#J-18808-Ljbffr