Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker - New Horizon MBU, Southmead Hospital

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Bristol is seeking a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker for the New Horizons Mother and Baby Unit. The role focuses on supporting women with perinatal mental health difficulties and their babies while promoting bonding and attachment. Candidates should have experience with mental health issues and skills in building supportive relationships. This position involves working closely with a dedicated team to provide compassionate care and support to vulnerable families.

Qualifications

• Preferable experience working with individuals with mental health issues.
• Baseline knowledge and understanding of perinatal mental health.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical work with service users to promote bonding with their baby.
• Build supportive relationships with service users and their families.
• Support vulnerable families alongside a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Experience with mental health difficulties

Ability to build therapeutic relationships

Job description

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker to join the team at New Horizons Mother and Baby Unit located on the Southmead Hospital site in North Bristol.

New Horizon MBU is a 4 bedded stand alone inpatient unit that provides specialist care and treatment for women suffering from perinatal mental health difficulties. The unit supports women from 32 weeks antenatal and postnatal women with babies up to one year of age. New Horizon MBU particularly supports mothers who are having issues relating to attachment and bonding with their baby and when the mother’s mental health is effecting their ability to care for their baby.

Care is provided over a 24 hour period and clinical team members work rotational shift patterns including days, nights, weekends and bank holidays.

Sometimes the role will be tough, you will see and be involved in some difficult things involving our patients. However here at New Horizon MBU we are a very close, compassionate and supportive team that thrive on looking after one another so we can deliver excellent care to the women on our unit.

It is preferable that the applicant has experience working with individuals with mental health difficulties. New Horizons MBU is a specialist service and therefore having baseline knowledge, understanding and experience is highly important.

Main duties of the job

Clinical work with service users with a range of acute and enduring mental health illnesses, with the main focus of promoting bonding and attachment with their baby. You will be expected to build therapeutic relationships with service users and their loved ones, supporting them through their transition into hospital and throughout. On New Horizons we work closely with children's social care team therefore you will need to safeguarding and promote the welfare of children and young people.

Support complex needs and vulnerable families alongside side the team and other health professionals. Plan and implement safety plans created with patients and their loved ones. Support activities of daily living alongside a child, such as supporting daily walks, home leave, cooking, baby activities.

You will be expected to complete all statutory and mandatory trainings identified by our trust including the prevention and management of violence and aggression, basic resuscitation and paediatric basic resuscitation.