A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you passionate about people and looking to start or continue your career in healthcare? We are excited to be recruiting to opportunities for people who are both new to care and for those with care experience who have attained the Care Certificate, to come and work with us as Healthcare Support Workers.
We are looking for people who have an interest in working in all our specialist services across all of our Hospital sites in Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Croydon (site based in Bromley).
If new to care, it is more important to us that you are kind and caring with a genuine desire to help and support our service users and their families. If this sounds like you, then you already have the skills that make a great Healthcare Support Worker.
If shortlisted, you will be invited to an exciting in-personAssessment Dayon theThursday 30th of January2025at the Bethlem Community Centre whereby you will have the opportunity to meet our amazing teams and find out how valuable your role as a Healthcare Support Worker will be. Please keep this date free when applying.
Those who are new to care are invited to apply for Band 2 positions and will be offered the Care Certificate training as part of our investment in your training and development.
Those who have experience and a Care Certificate from the NHS* will be eligible to apply for the band 3 role of Senior Healthcare Support Worker
What we need:
• A positive and caring attitude
• Enthusiasm
• A determination to do a good job
• Willingness to learn and undertake training
Every day, you will make a huge difference to the lives of the people we care for, delivering a high standard of care alongside your colleagues.
Working under the direct supervision and guidance of a Registered Nurse/ Senior Health Care Support Worker/ Assistant Practitioner/Nurse Associate to support the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
This role will require the postholder to provide hands on care in the prevention, management, and de-escalation of violence in in-patient settings, using approved techniques. The postholder(s) will be required to be physically fit to undertake be assessed as competent in Seni Lewis training to obtain the required skills in the prevention, management and de-escalation of violence.
Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website. Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants
Working under the direct supervision and guidance of a Registered Nurse/ Senior Health Care Support Worker/ Assistant Practitioner/Nurse Associate
1. Undertake activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support.
2. Provide hands-on care to service users including:• Undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open and non- judgmental way.
• Recognising and valuing service users as individuals, acknowledging the importance of maintaining the service user’s respect and dignity at all times and ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity.
• Escalating any concerns to a Registered Nurse.
• Monitoring and recording service user clinical observations as directed by a Senior Clinician/Registered Nurse/ B4, such as physical observations and vital signs and escalating as appropriate any signs or symptoms of deterioration or that do not fulfil the personal parameters to the relevant professional.
• Implementing the principles of ‘recovery’: encouraging and supporting service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, participate in community meetings and other activities of their interest.
See enclosed JD for details on main responsibilities.
Please note we do not offer sponsorship for these roles
This advert closes on Sunday 19 Jan 2025