Band 3 Health Care Support Worker- The Grange and the Gillivers

NHS; Leicester; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a compassionate Health Care Support Worker to join their team. The role requires providing personal care and support to patients in a residential setting. The ideal candidate will have a caring attitude and be able to work flexible hours. Benefits include training opportunities and enhanced pay for unsocial hours.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Free uniform

Enhanced pay for unsocial hours

Qualifications

• Experience in providing personal care.
• Ability to work in a 24/7 care environment.
• Experience with individuals having learning disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Meet patients' needs 24/7.
• Provide personal care, laundry, and meal preparation.
• Engage patients in social activities.

Skills

Caring

Compassionate

Enthusiastic

Job description

Band 3 Health Care Support Worker- The Grange and the Gillivers

Are you a caring, compassionate and enthusiastic person?Come and work for us in our Learning Disability short breaks homes. We are seeking a Health Care Support Worker for a full time post (37.5 hours per week.)

We are a team of friendly people who offer short breaks to adults with a learning disability.The Grange and the Gillivers provide respite to patients with behaviours that challenge and complex physical health needs.

The service provides respite for individuals with dedicated health needs, in single sex stays with specialist nursing and support staff.You'll be looking after a small number of patients, so your contact with them will be high.

We provide 24/7 care throughout the year and our staff work various shift patterns across days and nights. Health Care Support Workers work on a rotational basis to provide care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

Tasks will include meeting your patients' needs 24/7.

These could include personal care, cleaning, preparing meals, laundry, meeting social activity and engagement needs along with any specific health needs.

In return for your hard work and your professional, caring and reliable service we offer:

• Training and development opportunities including supervision which are aimed at developing your career in the direction you want to take it
• Experience gained by working in a variety of environments.Free uniform
• Enhanced pay for unsocial hours worked.
• 5 minutes walk from the Hospital Hopper bus stop and 10 minutes from Beaumont Leys.

Full details of the role are attached in the Job and Person Specification for this vacancy. Please click on the link for a full list of the role and what we are looking for from you.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.About UsLeicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please review the attached job description and person specification. This document outlines the full range of criteria that are required for the role. In your application, you can state how you meet the criteria in the job description and person specification.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

The Grange and The Gillivers Farm Drive,

The Grange and The Gillivers Farm Drive,