Job summary
Band 2 - Health Care Support Worker
Are you a Health Care Support Worker looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you're in luck.
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our adult acute ward, Brocton House at St George's Hospital based in Stafford. We are an award-winning team and when you come to work with us, we will help you reach your full potential. Not only that, we will actively seek opportunities to share the great things you are doing, with others locally, regionally, and nationally.
As an experienced Health Care Support Worker from the NHS or private sector, you'll join a team that works in close partnership with Staffordshire Police and Mental Health Services, and you'll join a Trust that puts people at the heart of what we do.
Your career with us will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide support, and spend therapeutic time with an allocated group of service users with mental health needs.
2. To promote service user's recovery through the delivery of high quality, outcome measured care and evidence based interventions.
3. To assist Registered Professionals in the implementation and evaluation of individualised care plans
4. Regularly report and effectively communicate service users' health status and care aims in care records and verbal reports to Registered Professional Staff members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including while supporting section 136 assessments and ECT treatment
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
5. Supporting your career development and progression
6. Excellent NHS Pension scheme
7. Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
8. Options for flexible working
9. Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
10. Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
11. If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
12. Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
13. Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
14. Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
15. Free car parking at all trust sites
16. Free flu vaccinations every year
17. Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Job description
Job responsibilities
Check out the videos below showcasing why you should grow your career here with us at MPFT:
Why Work for Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
Development and Progression Within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
What is it like to be a Healthcare Support Worker within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube
Brocton House is a 20 bed inpatient facility for working age adults with acute mental health problems. We also provide a 6 bed Whittington Suite for serving military personnel.
We provide inpatient facilities for working age adults with acute mental health problems and we are looking for caring, compassionate individual to work within our acute service who are committed to providing high quality care and treatment to our patients. Working in an acute environment can be challenging, but with the right team, positive attitude and resilience we are rising to the challenge and reaping the reward of being able to support people during their most difficult times.
With you in our team, we will empower you to work innovatively, showing a commitment to providing compassionate care and a strong desire to improve the patients experience. You will be able to apply the philosophies of engagement, recovery and positive care in your work with your patients.
This role will require you to work in shift patterns covering 24/7.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
18. Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care OR NVQ 2 in Health and Social Care with demonstrable evidence of numeracy and literacy skills (equivalent GCSE's or Functional Skills)
19. Demonstrable knowledge and experience as outlined below
Experience
Essential
20. Experience of working as part of a team and delivering a customer focused service.
Desirable
21. Experience of working with people with Mental Health needs as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
22. Experience of being a service user or carer