Employer: Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Bodmin Fettle House Bungalow Offices
Town: Bodmin
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/11/2024 23:59
Lead Health Care Assistant
Band 4
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a vibrant Lead Health Care Assistant to work in our Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation Service, which is based at the Bodmin Hospital site in Cornwall.
The Community Outreach Rehabilitation team provides a service across the whole county of Cornwall supporting people recovering from complex and enduring mental health issues. The team operates alongside the inpatient ward, Fettle House, allowing the MDT to follow through a service specific rehabilitation pathway for patients as they resume/ establish independent lives outside of the hospital setting.
The post holder will be embedded within the Community Rehabilitation Team which includes a multi-disciplinary team, who work alongside carers and other agencies to ensure seamless care provision is provided.
The Lead Health Care Assistant will be motivated and expected to have excellent communication and therapeutic/professional relationships, demonstrate a variety of communication skills in accordance with service user’s needs. You must be a team player and work well with the multi-disciplinary team and the care teams within the community. You must have effective time management skills. You will be involved in the development and reviewing of the rehabilitation service. You will be responsible for carrying your own case load and completing assessments appropriate to your grade.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of up to 10 service users.
The post holder will provide a range of services including practical and emotional support to individual service users as indicated by the individual care plans provided by their care coordinators.
The post holder will supervise staff and be responsible for the allocation of work within the clinical support team. The post holder will be responsible for managing the day-to-day diarised tasks and triaging incoming calls. The postholder will be responsible for the supervision of junior staff.
You will foster and maintain good working relations with members of other community teams, health care professionals and inpatient services. Receiving and sharing information from GPs, carers etc.
Establish and maintain effective contact with service users, their relatives and carers in order to ensure good communication.
Give information and assistance to service users and their carers so that they are aware of their rights, entitlements and the contents of the care plan. Use of community resources appropriate to the needs of the service user. Act as interface between qualified and unqualified staff.
Person specification
* Have NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an appropriate subject
* Experience within a supervisory role
Mental Health Experience
* Experience working with clients with a range of mental health or learning disability needs
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details.
Any general recruitment queries, please contact our recruitment team on 01208 834644
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