Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker - Salisbury

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Salisbury is seeking Healthcare Support Workers to join their team. You will deliver high-quality care in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit and work closely with a multidisciplinary team. The role requires shift work, including evenings and weekends, and offers training opportunities to complete NHS Care Certificate and other qualifications. Ideal for candidates passionate about helping individuals in their recovery.

Qualifications

• Experience in a health care setting is desirable but not essential.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality care and recovery interventions.
• Maintain a clean, safe therapeutic environment.
• Participate in the ongoing care planning and assessments.

Skills

Support individuals with fluids and nutrition

Assist with personal care

Encourage discussions

Job description

Job overview

We are looking for new colleagues, with a passion for helping people, to join us as a Healthcare Support Workersin our team based at Fountain Way, Salisbury.

Ashdown is a 6-bedded male, Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit that cares for individuals with the highest level of mental health needs that currently require intensive nursing support and a safe environment.

Health Care Support Workers on Ashdown work as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals to ensure that the clinical, environmental and social needs of our service users are met. Our role is to work collaboratively with individuals to empower them in their recovery and enable them to move through the care pathway. Experience of having worked in a health care setting is desirable but not essential.

Working closely with our multi disciplinary teams, supporting service users, you will receive training to complete the NHS Care Certificate and a Level 3 Healthcare apprenticeship.

The ward operates on a 24/7 shift basis and you will be required to work shifts including evenings, nights, weekends and Bank Holidays and will qualify for unsocial enhancements in addition to your basic pay.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver high quality care and recovery interventions forservice users within designated clinical areas.
• Supporting individuals with fluids and nutrition, physicalwellbeing, and personal care.
• Assisting service users with financial or accommodation issues.
• Escorting or accompanying service users for planned periods ofleave on hospital grounds and in the community facilitatingsocial inclusion.
• Encouraging service users to talk about their experiences inone-to-one or group discussions.
• To help maintain a clean, well-organised, safe and therapeutic environment.
• To deliver psychosocially-informed one-to-one and groupinterventions aiming to positively impact service users’cognitive and emotional wellbeing.
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To practice planned care, and to directly participate in thedevelopment of recovery-focused interventions that addressservice users’ and carers’ needs and preferences.
• To proactively review, record and assess the on-going impacts of such interventions.
• To participate in the on-going care planning, CPA and riskassessment processes in collaboration with service users, theircarers, and other members of the care team and to contributeto all aspects of clinical record keeping.
• To maintain a basic working understanding of both the MentalHealth Act (1983) and Mental Capacity Act (2005).