Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Devizes; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is recruiting Healthcare Support Workers for our 20 bedded acute ward and 4 bedded Place of Safety. You will engage with service users, support in care planning and monitor physical health in a multidisciplinary team.

You will complete a Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression course and learn to support service users in crisis with empathetic, person-centred care while maintaining a safe therapeutic environment.

Responsibilities

• Engage with service users on the ward and build rapport.
• Recognise signs and symptoms of mental health illness and support collaborative care planning.
• Support in physical health care and monitoring, including vital signs.
• Complete Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression course to safely de-escape distressed service users.

Skills

Compassionate care

Teamwork

Communication

Resilience

Job description

Job overview

We are looking to recruit compassionate, resilient and enthusiastic Healthcare Support Workers within our 20 bedded acute ward and 4 bedded Place of Safety. Where we provide care and support for working adults providing assessment and treatment for various mental health illnesses and disorders. This is an exciting opportunity to dual work between Poppy and Bluebell.

This is an opportunity for you to develop a rewarding career where you can make a real difference to help change the lives of our service user group for the better.

This can be a challenging yet rewarding environment where as a team we strive to help our service users to overcome a variety of complex needs.

You will be able to learn and understand how to care for service users that are in mental health crisis by promoting choice and independence in the least restrictive way possible.

Right to Work in the UK: This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

As a healthcare support worker the majority of your time will be spent engaging and getting know the service users on the ward. You will become able to recognise signs and symptoms of mental health illness and as a key member of the multi professional team which include Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapists. You will be able to support in collaborative care planning and implementation.

Although we are a mental health unit we give as much emphasis on physical health care and monitoring. The role of Health care support worker is vital in this area being able to ensure that daily well being needs and care needs are met and monitoring of clinical vital signs.

Successful applicants will also be required to undertake and complete a Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression course. This enables staff to begin building the skills to de escape service users in peaks of distress whilst maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment for all.