Main area PCDU Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available)
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Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Peter Hodgkinson Centre
Town: Lincoln
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 24/02/2025
Band 3
Job overview
Join Our Team as a Band 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker!
Are you a highly motivated individual with a passion for mental health care? We are looking for someone to join our Psychiatric Clinical Decisions Unit (PCDU), Health-Based Place of Safety (HBPoS), and Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre (MHUAC) at LPFT.
Your Role:
* Provide High-Quality Care: Participate in developing, implementing, and maintaining care within the clinical decisions unit.
* Support Assessments: Be actively involved in the assessment, planning, and implementation of patient care.
* Collaborate with Teams: Work closely with service users, their carers, and the nursing team to ensure a robust recovery pathway, often community based.
Why LPFT?
* Innovative Service: Join a service that leads to well-developed, service-user-centered treatment plans, helping manage immediate crises and supporting long-term recovery.
* Supportive Environment: Thrive in an atmosphere conducive to delivering exceptional mental health care, with opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.
Requirements:
* Shift Work: Ability to work a flexible schedule, including days, nights, and weekends.
* Passion for Mental Health: A genuine interest in supporting individuals through their mental health journey.
Apply Today!
Embark on a rewarding career with LPFT, where your contributions make a significant impact on the lives of service users. Join us in shaping the future of mental health care.
Main duties of the job
* Work within the policies, protocols & clinical procedures & to promote competent working practice within an integrated multi-disciplinary team.
* Liaise with nurses and carry out assigned duties.
* Be prepared to work on own initiative and report to Nurses.
* Promote equality for all patients & understand their health needs.
* Demonstrate an awareness of service user & carer perspectives on the provision of treatment and continuing care.
* Participate in clinical & managerial supervision sessions & performance reviews.
* Liaise with representatives from associated voluntary and statutory organisations & facilitate good communication processes.
* Attend in-service training and other study/refresher days.
* Facilitate & participate in recreational & physical activities in the provision of health & social care to service users.
* Demonstrate an understanding of the responsibilities in relation to patients’ property & valuables, respecting cultural values.
* Always act in a manner to promote and safeguard the interests and well-being of patients.
* Actively promote a responsible caring attitude, treating all patients with dignity and respect.
* Always act in a manner that ensures no patient is the subject of abuse.
* Report any incident which does not comply with Trust policy regarding incident reporting.
* Participate in the escorting of patients as per the Unit procedures.
* Accompany patients and participate, as needed, in recreational activities.
* Maintain good order and cleanliness on the Unit.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
* Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
* Competitive annual leave allowance
* Car leasing scheme
* Free eye tests
* Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
* Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person specification
Experience
* Previous relevant experience working with people with mental health problems at a nursing assistant grade or equivalent within a health and social care setting.
* Voluntary or working capacity with mental health service or equivalent.
Qualifications
* Cavendish Care Certificate or willingness to work towards resourced by LPFT.
* NVQ Level 2 in Care or equivalent.
* Certificate in Community Mental Health.
* ECDL.
Skills
* Skills related to Physical healthcare interventions such as urine analysis, phlebotomy, TPR and BP etc, recording findings and informing supervising nurse of results.
* Venepuncture.
As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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