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Bracken Ward (at the Airedale Centre for Mental Health) is looking for passionate and committed individuals to join our acute inpatient wards as Health Care Support Workers (HCSW).
Would you like to broaden your clinical experience, working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a wide range of care?
About Us
We are a provider of high-quality mental health, community, and learning disability services across Bradford. We work with individuals, their carers, and our partners to ensure that people get the right care, in the right place with the right support. We share the common goal of becoming the leading provider of integrated care for people of all ages with mental or physical health needs.
Bracken Ward is the Older Peoples functional acute admissions ward, caring for those from the age of 65, who are experiencing acute mental health crises.
About You
You will need to be resilient, compassionate, and dedicated to providing holistic care. Patient-focused and driven to help encourage the recovery of our patients.
Responsibilities
* To provide generic care and planned interventions to the patients/clients within the Older Peoples Mental Health Acute Care Service.
* Provide care to patients to maintain their personal hygiene, physical health, and psychological comfort ensuring that their privacy and dignity is always maintained.
* Under the supervision of registered health care professionals, assist the healthcare team with the provision of clinical care for a defined group of patients.
* Ensure patient safety is maintained and patient experience is positive by treating all patients, relatives, and colleagues with respect, dignity, and courtesy in accordance with Trust values.
* Takes leadership from Assistant Practitioner within a delegation framework for agreed tasks.
This position is not eligible for sponsorship set by the Home Office and the skilled worker visa occupation list.
If you are currently a visa holder and your visa status expires, we may be required to terminate your employment in compliance with immigration regulations.
Closing Date: 10th March 2025
Shortlisting Date: W/C 11th March 2025
Interview Date: TBC
Core Values
* We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference.
* We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs.
* We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners.
Benefits
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
* Increased mileage rates for > 3500.
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages.
* A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Toland Job title: Ward Manager Email address: rebecca.toland@bdct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01535 678100
Seniority Level
Entry level
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Function
Other
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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