Health Care Support Worker

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking Health Care Assistants or Support Workers to join a compassionate team. The ideal candidates will support patients in a mental health setting, ensuring they have a voice in their own care. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to quality improvement and to work within a diverse and supportive organization focused on outstanding patient care.

Qualifications

• Keen interest in working with patients in mental health settings.
• Sound knowledge of best practices in patient care.

Responsibilities

• Ensure patients have a strong voice in their care.
• Work within a supportive multidisciplinary team.

Job description

To be successful in a Health Care assistant or Support Worker role, you will need to be forward thinking and have a keen interest in working with patients being nursed in a mental health setting. You will be working within a supportive multidisciplinary team, caring for patients with a wide range of needs. Our care and treatment programmes are underpinned by principles of recovery and social inclusion and much of our work is co-produced with patients.

You will help to ensure that the people we care for always have a strong voice. If you are committed to providing outstanding patient care with a sound knowledge of best practice, this is the opportunity for you.

Making Things Better: Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London.

Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care. We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021.

Aiming High

We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018. We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users.

Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement.

Diversity

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve.

We are looking for caring and compassionate people, both experienced and inexperienced, to join our dedicated teams. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Other reasons to apply: As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community.