An exciting opportunity has arisen to build a flexible workforce to support patients presenting to UHD with mental health, cognitive or challenging behavioural difficulties.
Please note: Individuals recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all of our Trust locations when service demands require it.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
Please check our website and services on University Hospitals Dorset website for more information
As a bank worker, you will be called upon to spend a significant part providing 1-2-1 care covering all aspects focusing on safety for both patients and staff as well as therapeutic intervention. You will also work as part of the wider team supporting colleagues and other healthcare professional when requested to do so.
The post holder will provide outstanding enhanced care to patients
needing additional nursing and emotional support in a high stress
environment. This patient group may include but is not limited to:
• Mental illness
• Dementia
• Delirium
• Intoxication
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Encephalitis
• Parkinson’s
• Specific neurological disease
• Brain Tumours
You are required to complete a full two weeks training (Monday -Friday, 08.30 - 16.00) at either Bournemouth or Poole Hospital.
Breakaway(with safehold) training will be provided to successful candidates and is a condition of the bank agreement. As a 7 day service, we ensure peer support for bank workers. The offer of bank shifts is primarily at short notice for varied shift patterns.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD is investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following a merger and the New Hospital Programme
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Dec 2024
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