Job summary
Band 2 - Health Care Support Worker - Adult Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Norbury House.
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 PICU ward Norbury at St George's Hospital in are an award-winning Trust and have recently been ranked by HSJ awards as top in the Midlands for Mental Health, Learning and Development and Community Trusts as Best Place to work recommended by employees. 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.
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
Norbury House is a psychiatric intensive care unit and has eleven inpatient beds for male only patients. The unit is locked and provides care to patients who have mental health difficulties, which may make it unsafe for either themselves or others, if they are assessed or treated in an open inpatient ward. We aim to provide a service, which helps patients as an individual and gives them the treatment they need to work towards their recovery
In this role you will beresponsible for the provision of planned recovery focused care working in partnership with service users. You will also work collaboratively with other Trust services to provide seamless care for service users on defined care-pathways, as well as working in partnership with agencies external to the Trust supporting service users access to services in the independent and non-statutory sector.
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 youll join a Trust that puts people at the heart of what we do.
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
19. NVQ 2 in Health and Social Care with demonstrable evidence of numeracy and literacy skills Or (equivalent GCSE's or Functional Skills)
20. Demonstrable knowledge and experience as outlined below
Experience
Essential
21. Experience of working as part of a team and delivering a customer focused service.
Desirable
22. Experience of working with people with Mental Health needs as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
23. Experience of being a service user or carer
24. Experience working in a Mental Health setting non Dementia
Skills
Essential
25. Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to mental health, access to mental health services, and mental health promotion.
26. Skills in literacy, written, verbal and an ability to effectively use electronic information and computer technology
27. Skills in managing situations of high expressed emotions, and an ability to manage one's own emotional state.
28. Ability to work independently, being self-motivated and to be able to prioritise and effectively manage a range of competing needs and pressures.